The Nigerian Army has warned that failure to report Boko Haram
activities will be heavily frowned upon as troops continue to fight the
terrorist insurgency in the northeast.

In a statement signed by the Deputy Director of Public Relations, Operation Lafiya Dole, Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu, he warned that Nigerians who don’t report suspicious Boko Haram activities will be treated as collaborators.

He said, “We wish to inform all well
meaning citizens, especially within Maiduguri metropolis and its
environs to promptly report the presence of suspicious persons or avail
the security agencies of information about such persons.

“Failure to report will be viewed
seriously as it is tantamount to collaboration with the Boko Haram
terrorists. Such compromising persons when found will be treated like
the terrorists.”

Nwachukwu revealed that the terrorist group
has intensified its psychological war by infiltrating villages in the
fringes of Maiduguri. He said the terrorists have resorted to
threatening residents and warning them to vacate their communities.

He begged for the public’s cooperation with troops to “weed out the infiltrating terrorists and their sympathisers”.

Since Boko Haram’s insurgency escalated in
2009, it has killed over 27,000 people and displaced millions in the
northeast region, with its operations also extending to border countries
like Cameroon, Chad and Niger.