BY GABRIEL EWEPU

ABUJA—FORMER Inspector General of Police, Sir Mike Okiro, has expressed worry over recent attacks by the Boko Haram sect, following the huge casualties recorded almost on daily basis, despite the declaration of state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states by President Goodluck Jonathan in May 2013.

Okiro said this after he was conferred with National Peace Award 2013 by the Global Peace Foundation, GPF, in commemoration of the United Nations’ International Day of Peace on Saturday, September 21.

He expressed concern over the ruthlessness of the new trend of insurgency in states where security operatives were adequately drafted to enforce the President’s declaration of war against terrorism.