Renowned security expert Dr. Ona Ekhomu has called on Nigeria’s security agencies to conduct behavioral analyses of Boko Haram terrorists in order to predict future attacks and prevent the tragic events.

According to Ekhomu, behavioral analysis gives the security psychologists or profilersdeep insight into the mind, phenomenology, idiosyncrasies and patterned-behaviors of sociopathic and psychopathic serial offenders.

Reacting to the killing of over 50 students in the attack in Yobe State, Ekhomu said that since BokoHaram terrorists were serial killers, it was possible to predict their choice of targets, timing of attacks, success rate and methods of attacks – even before they strike.

Ekhomu called for the setting up of Behavioral Analysis Units as part of our security infrastructure. He said that the war against Boko Haram terrorism was not a conventional warfare and that Nigeria’s security agencies have to be retooled faster in order to “meet extant challenges”.

According to Dr. Ekhomu who is also the President of the Association of Industrial Security and Safety Operators of Nigeria, Boko Haram had repeatedly attacked schools in Yobe, Borno and Adamawa states with huge fatalities.

He  opined that 90 per cent of school attacks occurred at night with the terrorists employing the same methods of AK-47 rifle shootings, throat slashing and burning of students to death in their dormitories. He said that the terrorists had “left enough signatures that can assist behavioral analysts to predict their future moves with certainty, thereby thwarting their nefarious plans to kill innocent students.”