The Federal Government of Nigeria has sent out a warning to the nation that Boko Haram insurgents are plotting to carry out another large scale abduction of school girls or foreigners.

The FG reports that in a bid to regain credibility, raise funds and get food supplies, the terrorist sect would embark on a sensational and daring kidnapping mission to show that they are not as depleted as the Nigerian Army reports them to be.

In a statement issued in Abuja on Friday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, stated that the terrorist are now focused on targets that can be easily hit after being dislodged from their stronghold and their capacity to stage spectacular attack degraded.

The Minister also said that even though the terrorists have now concentrated on soft targets like motor parks, schools and entertainment centres, they have been reduced to the point of not being able to stage any big attack.

”The kidnap of the Chibok girls in 2014, which attracted global attention to the terrorist group, is what it is now trying to repeat, hoping it can find vulnerable targets, especially schools, or a group of foreigners outside the frontline states.

”The plan by Boko Haram is also part of an overall strategy by the terrorists to seek to negatively impact on the psyche of the gallant troops who have routed them (terrorists) from their stronghold and also give the impression that they have not been largely defeated by the December 2015 deadline given by this Administration to effectively degrade the insurgency in the North-east.

”This is why we have decided to issue this alert to enable the authorities of both public primary and secondary schools in remote locations, particular in the Northern states, to upgrade security arrangements.

”It is also aimed at alerting the general public, operators of hotels and entertainment centres, motor parks and similar facilities to also upgrade their security arrangements for the holidays,” the Minister said.

Lai Mohammed also assured the nation that as the military has recorded its victory against the terrorists in accordance to its December deadline, the FG will continually build on the success of the military.

”Smoked out of their hideouts and badly bruised by our gallant military, the Boko Haram terrorists are desperate, especially in the face of the depletion of their food supplies. In their desperation, they will not hesitate to embark on actions they feel can still make them relevant or enhance their survival. But the military is ready and able to prevent that,” the Minister said.

Adebayo Emuleomo