Boko Haram: DHQ Considers Tough Option against Chad

                             
                                                                           

Almost six months after Heads of State and administration of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) consented to set up a joint military team to pound the terrorist bunch, Boko Haram, the Chadian government's refusal to contribute its military troops to the joint team is helping Boko Haram's invasion against pure Nigerians, a senior knowledge officer at the Defense Headquarters told THISDAY in Abuja.

Hence, the source said the Nigerian Army is considering ''harder choice'' in managing the affirmation of the Chadian government's complicity in the demonstration of terrorism by Boko Haram.

At the occasion of President Muhammadu Buhari two weeks after he was initiated, Nigeria and its neighbors: Chad, Niger, Cameroun and later Benin Republic, had consented to set up a joint military power to counter Boko Haram, a move numerous military investigators said was an indication of President Buhari's resolve to smash the savage Islamist terrorist amass from the get-go in his residency.

''Chad is our real issue in the progressing endeavors to squash Boko Haram. The Chadian government for reasons unknown, has declined to satisfy its guarantee to contribute troops to the multinational joint team, and it is hampering the military operation,'' the source expressed.

''Truth be told, that is the main region (Chad) that we are having issue at this time. Numerous individuals from Boko Haram still originate from that point to assault Nigerians and keep running back to Chad. Also, we are not getting the participation of the Chadian government. Different nations like Cameroun, Niger and even Benin Republic have contributed their troops to the joint team. Be that as it may, Chad has declined to participate.''

The military source further told THISDAY that the significant setbacks the multinational joint team recorded as of late happened along the Lake Chad area.

''I don't know to what extent we are going to endure this. Truth be told, the Nigerian military is considering extreme routes in managing the suspected Chadian government's complicity in the demonstration of terrorism by Boko Haram,'' the security source who argued namelessness further told THISDAY.

At an one-day summit in June this year at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, Buhari had respected the pioneers of Chad and Niger, and the Defense Minister of Cameroun and saluted their responsibilities to complete Boko Haram that is undermining the territorial security base of the LCBC.

An announcement a while later said the joint power, which would be situated in the Chad capital Ndjamena, was relied upon to be up and running six months prior - with a lasting Nigerian pioneer. While Chad and Cameroun were relied upon to create the agent leader and the head of staff posts in the power, whose mission is to pulverize Boko Haram, which has murdered thousands and uprooted a huge number of individuals in its six-year of minister to build up an Islamic state in Nigeria's upper east.

Two weeks subsequent to expecting office, President Buhari had set out to Niger and Chad and moving the military charge cCentre from Abuja to Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State.

Another military source said while the Nigerian powers are authoritatively as yet arranging with the Chadian government on the need to participate with Nigeria and the provincial governments to pound Boko Haram, a few knowledge wings of the country's security are additionally uncovering profound to locate the genuine purpose behind the Chadian government's affirmed complicity in Boko Haram's terrorism demonstration.

Early this year, previous Senate President and previous priest, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, at the fifth conference address of the Adekunle Ajasin University, had endeavored to comprehend the riddle behind the Boko Haram bunch, its impetuses and the genuine explanation for the terrorists sporadic assaults.

Ayu apparently said: ''The oil riches underneath the Chad Basin is fanning the coals of revolt in the nation in light of the fact that unmistakable agents and government officials in both Nigeria and Chad, in relationship with French organizations, have put vigorously in oil investigation and abuse.

As indicated by the previous Senate President: "They are the essential agents of, and arms suppliers to, Boko Haram. The bunch's destabilization of the North-eastern piece of Nigeria advantages these financial specialists in light of the fact that it delays investigation and generation on the Nigerian side of Lake Chad.''

The political science master had included that the Lake Chad Basin is evaluated to have a store of 2.32billion barrels of oil, and 14.65trillion cubic feet of normal gas. He said the oil and gas streams underground over the nations sharing the Lake Chad Basin: Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroun and utilizing 3D penetrating, Chad is tapping oil inside of its region as well as from Nigeria, to push up its creation levels.

Ayu was of the perspective that Boko Haram is comprised of Nigerians and an expansive number of Chadians from the Chadian areas of Lac and Hadjer Lamis – regions that impart a long fringe to the North-eastern Nigeria around the Lake Chad district and furnish Boko Haram with prepared Chadian warrior