Security analyst, Bulama Bukarti a senior fellow of the Extremism Policy Unit at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, has cautioned that the activities of the dreaded terrorist group, Boko Haram, are starting to gain popularity on social media platforms, like TikTok.
Bukarti made this statement on Sunday when he was featured as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
The revelation followed closely after Senator Ali Ndume of the Borno South District revealed that about 100 soldiers and 280 civilians were killed by Boko Haram within the time frame of six months.
Bukarti raised a concerns that the group was now promoting their ideology on social media using video clips and live streams.
In his statement, “Right now, when you go on TikTok, you will see Boko Haram members’ accounts.
“They host live programmes and live shows where they propagate Boko Haram’s ideology,
“They justify the group’s violence, which they do in the Hausa language. They field questions from the audience and answer comments that are written”.
“Even this week, there was a Boko Haram member who posted a 10-minute video on TikTok attacking me for speaking up against the escalating violence of the group. But it’s not just that.
“We know that Boko Haram now operates unmanned drones. They surveil military formations in the northeast with unmanned drones,
“What we have seen over the past three months was over seven Boko Haram attacks on super camps, on Nigerian military super camps.
“In Sabon Gari and lots of other places, they overran the camps. They dispersed the military, killed some, captured others and stole weapons, food, medicine and other equipment from those areas and fled into the bush.”;
