UK report exposes why Boko Haram now opts to capture territories

A journalist and presenter with a reputable online publication in the United Kingdom (UK), Martin Summers has unearthed what informed Boko Haram’s suddenly change of tactics from killing and kidnapping innocent citizens into occupying captured territories and declaring them their strongholds.
The journalist in a report carried in his medium revealed that the islamist sect’s latest strategy was enabled by an alliance with the dreaded multinational terror group, Islamic State for Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Al-Shabab, stressing that it was the outcome of the meeting that led Boko Haram into overrunning places and declaring them territorial conquest enclaves, a system that was alien to the group until recently.
Before the meeting that led to the change, Boko Haram had only attacked, maimed, abducted, killed, and moved on. But the alliance with the other terror groups educated it on the need to hold on to territories as conquest enclaves as that would further make it difficult to be repelled.
Summers gave details of a secret strategy meeting which recently took place during the lesser hajj in Saudi Arabia between senior representatives from Boko Haram, Al Qaeda in the Maghreb and Islamic State and Al-Shabab.
In the revelation, he specified certain shocking details about the meeting, including the fact that the terrorists were agreeing to strategize as a united front, instead of operating as disparate groups. The meeting held under the guise of the holy pilgrimage to Mecca and the Saudi authorities were apparently unaware of it.
“Amongst decisions taken were for Boko Haram to switch strategy from simply launching terrorist attacks to holding territory and declaring a caliphate, which crosses the Nigerian and Cameroonian borders,” Summers said.
His startling revelations closely align with the speech delivered last week by President Barak Obama in the United States (US) where he made reference to the growing links among terrorist organizations around the world and the need to take action. The UK report seems to have unveiled a specific reason for Obama’s concern.
Summers, who is known for breaking big stories ahead of the mainstream media, suggested that American Secretary of State “Senator Kerry’s recent visit to Saudi Arabia may also have been linked to the terrorist strategy meeting in some way. He also stated that he believes the leaked information relating to the terrorists’ meeting emanated from the UK Secret Services; to draw attention to the involvement of Boko Haram in this growing international terrorist crisis and to force international action on the issue.
“These revelations followed recent accusations by the Australian negotiator hired by the Federal Government, Dr. Stephen Davis, who has alleged ‘sponsorship’ of Boko Haram by senior northern Nigerian politicians as well as the flow of Al Qaeda money through the Central Bank of Nigeria.
“What seems certain from these further revelations is that the ongoing war against Boko Haram by Nigeria is part of a much wider battle against international terrorism, and not simply a local issue,” the journalist reported.