The attack is the presumed handiwork of Boko Haram, the Nigerian Islamist insurgency that has declared war on Cameroon as part of its plan to bring the borderlands between the two countries under its control.
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He said unlike what obtained when he was Federal Commissioner for Petroleum under the military regime when the NNPC had only two traceable accounts before paying oil proceeds into the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), “now, everybody is doing anyhow”.
Boko Haram has killed some 10,000 people since 2009 and has also kidnapped hundreds of girls and women.
Nigerians, who spoke at the interactive session earlier, had pledged their support to Buhari’s government to enable it to achieve its campaign promises.
Abdoulaye said commercial activity in the town of Diffa, the regional capital, had been curtailed by the state of emergency and persistent Boko Haram attacks.
May 16, 2014: Ten Chinese people are abducted during a attack blamed on Boko Haram on a camp of Chinese workers.
Buhari said the Leahy Law is aiding Boko Haram in its crimes.
“Unwittingly, and I dare say, unintentionally, the application of the Leahy law amendment by the U”. And we are optimistic that this appoints will yield the expected results in no distant time and the people will enjoy peace and progress again.
Although no group has claimed the attack so far, the Boko Haram group has been threatening to cause mayhem in Cameroon over the past year. “We find it hard to understand how and why, in spite of the U.S. presence in Nigeria with their sophisticated military technology, Boko Haram should be expanding and becoming more deadly”.
The bill passed in a mostly partisan vote.
Speaking after he met the Nigerian President at the White House, on Monday, Barack Obama praised President Buhari for tackling corruption, an issue which compromised Washington’s relationship with the Nigerian leader’s predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan.
Despite the fighting talk, Buhari said he remained open to negotiations with Boko Haram.
WHO is also to invest 300 million dollars on immunization against malaria in Nigeria, while the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will collaborate with Dangote Foundation to ensure that the country maintains its zero polio case record of the past one year.
“As a government, we have no illusions whatsoever about the enormity of the challenges ahead of us”, he said.
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“We must explore every available means to obtain real-time and actionable intelligence in all our operations”, Olonisakin added. Failure is not an option for us.
