Boko-Haram: Nigeria, France unite to fight terrorism

 

FOLLOWING the re­cent terror attack on Paris, France, the French Government has declared readiness to synergise with the Armed Forces to tackle global terrorism.
France Director of Mili­tary Intelligence, General Christophe Gomer, who made this known when he visited the Chief of Defence Intelligence, Air Vice Mar­shal Riku Morgan, in his office in Abuja, said terror­ism, which is now spreading around the globe needed to be jointly tackled and de­feated by all nations of the world.
The French intelligence chief, who said most terror­ist attacks are not anticipat­ed, said the phenomenon of global terrorism was gradu­ally catching up with all na­tions that were napping.
“It’s something we did not prepare for, including developing countries like Nigeria.
“We have to evolve new ways of tackling them, stamp them out of exis­tence.”
General Gomer, said he was visiting Nigeria for the first time to solicit for support from the Nigerian military in the area of intel­ligence sharing to wipe out terrorism which is now a global threat.
Receiving the French delegation, Chief of De­fence Intelligence (CDI), Air Vice Marshal Morgan described the visit as timely as only synergy and mutual cooperation between coun­tries was the only solution needed to effectively tackle the menace of global terror­ism.
The CDI sympathised with the people of France over a recent attack by ter­rorists. “We as a nation un­derstand the feelings that you are going through right now because we have the same nuisance in our hands.
AVM Morgan commend­ed the French delegation for the visit.