How Boko Haram, ISWAP Are Using Social Media to Recruit – Monguno
The National Security Adviser, Maj Gen Babagana Monguno (retd), has raised the alarm that social media has become a harbour for terrorist groups such as Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, to recruit and inculcate their values on prone Nigerian youths.
This was contained in his speech during the ongoing second United Nations High-Level Conference of Heads of Counter-Terrorism Agencies Agencies of member-states, convened by the United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, in New York.
According to Monguno, the aim of the terrorist groups was to portray the Federal Government as incapable of protecting the population, Tribune reports.
The NSA said, "The Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists are also using social media to instil fear in the target communities, ...
