USA, NIGERIA FIGHTING THE SAME TERROR NETWORKS -EKHOMU

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Renowned security expert, Dr. Ona Ekhomu has called upon the United States Government to sell arms and ammunition to the Nigerian government to enable speedy and successfully prosecution of the war against Boko Haram. “Nigeria needs special anti-terrorist rifles, attack helicopters, technical intelligence and training from the Americans in order to expedite defeat of the enemy,” he said.

Speaking in Atlanta, Georgia USA on October 1^st 2014 at the 60^thAnnual Seminar and Exhibits of the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS International), Dr. Ekhomu argued that US government support and capability enhancement were necessary as Nigeria and the USA were fighting a common enemy -- the terror networks that included ISIS, Boko Haram, Al Qaeda, Ansar Dine, Jabhat Al Nusra, Khorasan, Talibans, etc

Ekhomu said that Boko Haram and ISIS were ideologically and operationally linked as evidenced by the BH land grab strategy in northeastern Nigeria and the declaration of the Islamic Caliphate of Gwoza which were similar to the ISIS land grab in Syria and Iraq and declaration of Islamic Caliphate in Iraq and Syria.

President of the Association of Industrial Security and Safety Operators of Nigeria (AISSON), Dr. Ona Ekhomu said that the allegations of human rights abuses levelled against the Nigerian military by Amnesty InternatIonal were “untrue, exaggerated and unsubstantiated.” He said that arms sales to Nigeria were being denied by the US government as per provisions of the Leahy Act on the basis of “these unsubstantiated and unfortunate allegations.” He urged the US authorities to conduct independent verification of the “nonsensical allegations”.