“They also reaffirmed their support for the implementation of the Lake Chad Basin Commission’s Five-Year Investment Programme (2013-2017), which seeks to save Lake Chad, restore its ecosystem and promote the socio-economic development of the people living within the basin”.
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Alex Badeh, the immediate past commander of the Nigerian military, has revealed that the effectiveness of the fight against the militant Islamist group, Boko Haram, was greatly hampered by fifth columnists within the military who leaked sensitive information and operational plans to the terrorist sect.
The state has been a staging ground for some of Boko Haram’s most vicious attacks and the group has repelled much of the Nigerian military’s offensive maneuvers. A hospital source said a dozen people were brought in with injuries as well as four bodies so far.
“Boko Haram decided not to use guns so as not to attract the attention of soldiers from Baga”.
The fishing villages around Baga were abandoned in January after some of the most deadly attacks by the militants.
Nigerian publication The Sun reported from the city of Maiduguri, the largest in Borno State.
The huge cost that would be required to rebuild the nation’s northeast that was devastated by the Boko Haram attacks and other trouble spots in the country could have been avoided if the military had been adequately equipped to contain the current insurgency before it became serious, said the ex-military chief.
The jihadists had attempted to enter Doron Baga on Monday but villagers “mobilised and began booing them”.
Stay on topic – This helps keep the thread focused on the discussion at hand. “In order to win this war we need the collective efforts of each one of us, standing together as a formidable force for good, to defeat and end these acts of terror against our people”, he declared. We have buses that bring troops to work every day and take them back home. “To avoid being attacked, we went to Maiduguri”, he said.
In the past, Abuja has accused Yaounde of dragging its feet over tackling Boko Haram, which analysts say established rear bases on the Cameroonian side of the Mandara mountains.
Last weekend, suspected militants from the group raided several remote localities around the lake.
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The planned 8,700-strong task force of troops from Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Benin was supposed to start operations from July 31, but has been dogged by lack of funding and political will.
