ABUJA,
Nigeria — Intelligence agents from all over the globe have poured into this
city, Nigeria’s capital, to help find the nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls
abducted by the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram more than a month ago — but
there has been little or no progress in bringing the young women home.
The problem, many
involved in the rescue effort say, is the failings of the Nigerian military.
There is a view among
diplomats here and with their governments at home that the military is so
poorly trained and armed, and so riddled with corruption, that not only is it
incapable of finding the girls, it is also losing the broader fight against
Boko Haram. The group has effective control of much of the northeast of the
country, as troops withdraw from vulnerable targets to avoid a fight and stay
out of the group’s way, even as the militants slaughter civilians.
Boko Haram’s fighters
have continued to strike with impunity this week, killing dozens of people in
three villages in its regional stronghold, but also hitting far outside its
base in the central region. Car bombs have killed well over 100, according to
local press reports.
This is a share lie, Nigerian Military are capable, even UN testified that. It is only b/c it is a spornsored war, they are not willing to act. All the top commanders and some poliicians have a hand in it. US should go ahead & destroy these BH menance. In fact Nigerian military is misleading all the whole effort.
I am totally disappointed at US officials. All they do is critisize and complain. Why then are they here? If it were France they troops and equipment would have been on ground up and running. By the way the insurgency in West Africa is a fall out of destabilisation of Libya by America and its NATO allies.
This is a share lie, Nigerian Military are capable, even UN testified that. It is only b/c it is a spornsored war, they are not willing to act. All the top commanders and some poliicians have a hand in it. US should go ahead & destroy these BH menance. In fact Nigerian military is misleading all the whole effort.
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ReplyDeleteI am totally disappointed at US officials. All they do is critisize and complain. Why then are they here? If it were France they troops and equipment would have been on ground up and running. By the way the insurgency in West Africa is a fall out of destabilisation of Libya by America and its NATO allies.
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