Nigeria Military’s response to Boko
Haram not working – US
commander
on january 28, 2015 at 7:43 am in news
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Turning the tide against Boko Haram will
require a “huge” international effort, a top
US military commander warned on Tuesday,
taking a swipe at Nigeria’s response to the
emboldened extremists.
Relations between the Nigerian and US
militaries have been strained with Nigeria
cancelling training by US advisers of a unit
that was supposed to fight the militants,
who have captured towns and villages in
the country’s northeast and vowed to create
a hardline Islamic state.
The conflict has left more than 13,000
people dead and one million homeless.
General David Rodriguez, head of US Africa
Command, said the Islamists’ gains on the
battlefield are cause for concern and “the
number of people displaced is just
staggering.”
“I think it’s going to take a huge
international and multinational effort there
to change a trajectory that continues to go
in the wrong direction,” Rodriguez said at
an event organized by the Center for
Strategic and International Studies, a
Washington think tank.
“The Nigerian leadership and Nigerian
military are going to have to really improve
their capacities to be able to handle that.”
Rodriguez said the Nigerian military’s
response “was not working very effectively
and actually in some places made it worse.”
He added: “I hope that they let us help more
and more.”
Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States,
Adebowale Ibidapo Adefuye, complained in
November that his country is “not satisfied”
with US support for the struggle against
Boko Haram and that Washington has
blocked the sale of some military hardware
over human rights concerns.
In a visit Sunday to Lagos, US Secretary of
State John Kerry said Washington was
“prepared to do more” to help Nigeria
counter Boko Haram.
Nigeria has the largest army in west Africa
but has come under criticism at home and
abroad for failing to stop the advance of
Boko Haram.
The United States was working with Nigeria
to build a comprehensive strategy “across
the board, not just military,” that
encompassed education, economic
development and health care to address the
needs of the population in the north, the
four-star general said.
Source:www.vanguardngr.com/2015/01/nigeria-militarys-response-boko-haram-not-working-us-commander/

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