A security expert, Bulama Bukarti has raised the alarm over prominent activities of Boko Haram members on social media.
Bukarti, a senior fellow of the Extremism Policy Unit at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, said the terrorists were not prominent on TikTok and other platforms where they host live sessions.
He said this while appearing as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
“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.”