The worst attack killed more than 400 people in January. “Five people died including the bomber”, said a senior Cameroonian military official who declined to be named.
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Amnesty worldwide has blamed Nigeria’s military for the deaths in detention of another 8,000 civilians.
The Nigerian diplomat also said that the America began playing politics with the fight against Boko Haram from the time it refused to sell arms that the Nigerian troop would have used to totally curb the Islamic Sect. He declared the report as “a fabrication from the imagination of those sympathetic to Boko Haram ways of life”.
Boko Haram has increased its activities in the last two years, and last year it kidnapped over 200 schoolgirls.
The group was designated as a foreign terrorism organisation by the United States in 2013. In 2014, the group was responsible for 6,664 deaths, compared to ISIS’ 6,073 deaths.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari urged the nation on Wednesday to remain vigilant, conceding that even his recently intensified military offensive against Boko Haram could not stop every attack.
Boko Haram has increasingly asserted itself, not only in its home base in Nigeria, but also in other western and central African countries, including Cameroon, Niger, Benin and Chad. “I really do not understand how leaders of the world sat around and watched a renegade group become monsters terrorising the world”.
Boko Haram has since 2009 waged a campaign of violence in Nigeria in an effort to establish an Islamic state.
At the press briefing, attended by our reporter in Maiduguri, the commander of 7 Division, Yushau Abubakar, also admitted that the troops were involved in a major clash with the insurgents.
Earlier this week, Nigerian Chief of Army Staff Lt. General Tukur Buratai chose to adopt a tight-lipped posture amidst reports that about 105 soldiers were killed by Boko Haram terrorists when they failed to return from a routine mission in the Northeast.
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While attacks in Western countries typically get more attention from Western media, more than 78% of those terrorism-related deaths happened in Nigeria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria.
