2027 elections: Curbing ISWAP’s excesses, tentacles

Going down the memory lane, I remember that   in early 2014 I was the Managing Editor of the police newspaper known as THE DAWN. The paper was at that time,   the only security newspaper in the country. I remember vividly that the DAWN carried a story of the arrest by the police,   of some young Nigerians who were students of a university in Tripoli, Libya and who had joined the Islamic terrorist group,   ISWAP.   ISWAP had recruited them to penetrate some key areas of Northern Nigeria to gather information. When they were arrested,   I requested that one of them be brought to my office for interview   for publication in the DAWN. While myself and the Editor were carrying out the i...