Our Security Agencies Are Brave For ESN, But Cowards For Boko Haram – Reno Omokri

A former aide to Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri has come out to challenge Nigerian security agencies to eliminate the leader of Boko Haram terrorist sect, Abubakar Shekau.

He recently revealed this on social media, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, the elimination should be done with the same force the security agencies used to crush a top member of the Indigenous People of Biafra, one Commander Ikonso.

He added that these agencies keep proving that they are strong when it comes to ESN, but very weak when they come up against terrorists troubling Nigeria.

His words, “Can’t Nigeria’s Army also take out leaders of Boko Haram, bandits and killer herdsmen troubling Nigeria, the same way they took out alleged ESN leader, Ikonso? Or, are they (security agencies) only strong when it comes to ESN, and weak when it comes to Boko Haram, bandits and herdsmen?”

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Bemigho Reno Omokri (born 1974) is an author and lawyer. Omokri was the host of Transformation with Reno Omokri, a Christian teaching TV show broadcast (for one season) on San Francisco’s KTLN and Detroit’s Impact Network. He is the founder of a multimedia project, Build Up Nigeria, and has produced a series of short films in the U.S.

He is the pastor of the Mind of Christ Christian Center in California and Abuja. He is also known for using social media to project the Gospel. Omokri continues to write articles for major newspapers (mainly political OpEd and Christian material).

On August 17, 2017, the Department of State Security attempted to arrest him at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja but failed. Three days after the failed arrest attempt, the ruling party in Nigeria, the All Progressive Congress, named Omokri, along with former President Goodluck Jonathan and Governors Nyesom Wike and Willie Obiano as some of those showing “hatred, narrow-mindedness and meanness” to President Muhammadu Buhari.

He was one of three spokesmen to the former President, and is credited with pioneering the use of social media for political purposes in Nigeria.