Curtail Boko Haram mass murder by un-sitting security personnel from the comfort of their offices, stations and barracks.

Curtail Boko Haram mass murder by un-sitting security personnel from the comfort of their offices, stations and barracks.
End Boko Haram mass murder in the cities by posting or mounting 24/7 security check points at 1.5 miles away from the city centers; at all the motor-able entry points or gates to the cities. In the 24 hours manning period security check points would be adjusted according to the presence or movement of people. Depending on the city size and number of entry points each check point can be manned effectively by 3 security personnel with one or two mobile squad patrolling city periphery and the fixed check points. It would be advisable to use same security officers for the same check points when and where possible. The primary responsibility at the check points would be to check vehicle loaded with IEDs, or motorcyclists, walkers carry IEDs and for particulars and identification check only when there are probable cause to demand for particulars and Identification.
Every 50 Km of Highways should have at least two Highway security patrols teams that head in opposite direction of the highway at any given time Each patrol vehicle team would have two security agents. The primary responsibility of these mobile squads is to accost suspicious persons, vehicles or activities on the highway and particulars and identification check of persons only when there exists probable cause to demand particulars and Identification from a road user. At every 50 to 100 km or at highway exit points should be a fixed security check points with same responsibility as the mobile squad. Motorist and road users must be advised as to the number, frequency and locations of other legitimate and legal security checks points they would expect on the road in the direction of their journey. The fixed highway check point and mobile squad must coordinate activities and work together.
Video cameras may be deployed at every check point and with every mobile unit. The cameras must be ON at all times. Taking bribes from road user must be strictly prohibited with harsh jail time and termination of service. There should be enough standby anti-terrorism response team of highly and powerfully armed personnel in each local government such that there would not be more than 20 minutes response time to reported terror or criminal activity. 
The above measure would not eliminate Boko Haram death squad but would deter and curtail their ability to inflict mass murder in the cities and on the highways. So Nigeria Soldiers would then concentrate and deploy in the villages and bushes where Boko Haram attacks are frequent and unchallenged. The reason rag tag book Haram has become a formidable menace is because our security agents are not as proactive as they ought to be and this may be due to poor training, poor equipment and poor compensation. All the above mitigating factors  against effective policing need change if Nigeria intends to root out Boko Haram and terrorism from the country.

In addition to effective security patrols and security check points around major cities and highways in the north East and eventually in the North in general, then across Nigeria, the FG in conjunction with the State governments must Immediately begin Biometric Biographical Data capture of all persons in the North East, the North and Nigeria in General. This Data Capture would tremendously aid in the fight  against terrorism and all crimes. The data capture should starts with males 13 years and above in the North East then in all of the North and all over Nigeria and all citizenry.

Boko Haram is but an Institutional Failures.

In honesty, the threat of BOko Haram to Nigerian is greater than that posed either by Al-Qaeda or by any other terrorist organizations to any other Nation. And this threat to Nigeria is neither because of the sophistication of this terror group nor their uncanny abilities to cause mayhem and or destructions. These ragtag terrorist primitive bastards are successful in their scourge because of institutional failures, corruption, mediocrity and gross incompetence in the Nigerian society exemplified.

For example, how can a nation fight terrorism or terrorist when it does not have even an inaccurate head counter and identities of its citizenry. In Nigeria there is neither birth, death, national, local registry of the citizenry. The result of this one out of many institutional failures is that anybody is and is not Nigerian depending on the immediate circumstances and desires of the individual.

Just by mere common sense, it is impossible to stop Boko Haram if its members like many Nigerians can assume any identity at any time and place of their choosing. Boko Haram will grow and increase in straight and assume any name and coloration as long as Nigeria remains one of the few countries in the world that cannot identify its own citizens.

A terrorist who appears Middle Eastern laden with explosives and AK 47s can walk freely across the porous Nigerian borders and within the Nigerian states parading self as citizen. And I ask, can we found somebody we know not of his or her existence, identity, name, height, complexion, familial? The answers is no; but when we do, it is by sheer luck but the security of a nation and of a people cannot be entrusted to luck and randomness. So credible head count back with biometrics is an Imperative and Odimegwu should have been encouraged and supported and Kwankwaso and his likes can go to hell.

The ongoing National Conference must recommend National Identity Card sheme backed with biometrics and an 8 to 10 year period national head count.