NIGERIA’S SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE APPARATUS: GENERAL OWOYE ANDREW AZAZI’S MILITARY APPROACH IN COMBATING BOKO HARAM MILITIA, 2010 – 2012

In Nigeria insecurity in the context of violence has reached generally, frightening levels since 2010 with the activities of the dreaded Islamist Jihadist terrorist group known as Boko Haram, rated the second deadliest terror organization in the world in 2012 for killing a total of 1,132 persons in 364 attacks, exceeding Afghanistan’s Taliban, which killed 1,842 persons in 525 attacks. Despite the Federal Government and policy maker’s strategic response and efforts to establish peace in Nigeria, state repression has to be on the increase rather than reduced violence in many parts of the country. Accordingly, this paper examines one of Nigeria’s 20th Chief of Army Staff since 1966, Late General Owoye Andrew Azazi, who was a professional Nigerian Military Intelligence, an expert in Military and Policy Strategic Studies, a multidisciplinary scholar and as well an expert in Terrorism Management. Azazi was concern about national unity, peace and security in Nigeria, extensive rehabilitation projects of Nigeria’s Military barracks, and Military Reforms, thus his concern for all of these prompted him to theorize on the extremist threat doctrine in his shaping of a national response to the Jihadist extremist group. Finally, the paper attempts to contribute towards resolving the insecurity challenges caused by Boko Haram through government-military strategy and making the people be self-reliant rather than being indebted to the "warped goodwill of others.

自2010年以来，伴随被称为博科圣地（Boko Haram）的极端伊斯兰圣战恐怖组织的活动，尼日利亚境内涉暴力的不安全局势整体达到令人震惊的程度。2012年，该组织因在364起袭击中累计造成1132人死亡，被评为全球第二致命恐怖组织，其致死人数超过了阿富汗塔利班（Taliban）——后者在525起袭击中造成1842人死亡。尽管尼日利亚联邦政府与政策制定者已采取战略应对举措并致力于实现国内和平，但该国多数地区的国家镇压反而愈演愈烈，暴力活动并未得到有效遏制。为此，本研究聚焦尼日利亚自1966年以来的第20任陆军参谋长（Chief of Army Staff）——已故奥沃耶·安德鲁·阿扎齐（Owoye Andrew Azazi）将军，他是尼日利亚军事情报（Military Intelligence）领域的专业人员、军事与政策战略研究专家、跨学科学者，同时也是恐怖主义管理（Terrorism Management）领域的行家。阿扎齐始终关注尼日利亚的国家统一、和平与安全，推动过尼日利亚军营的大规模修缮项目与军事改革，正是出于对上述议题的深切关切，他针对圣战极端组织的威胁理论展开研究，以构建国家层面的应对方案。最后，本研究尝试通过完善政府-军事协同战略，推动民众实现自立自强而非依赖‘他人扭曲的善意’，为解决博科圣地引发的尼日利亚不安全挑战贡献可行思路。