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The Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh,
has put the total number of troops involved in the
joint operations between federal troops and the
Chadian forces at 7,500 soldiers.
The CDS said the military had deployed 5,000 soldiers
to work with a total of between 2,000 to 2,500 forces
in the coordinated action against the Boko Haram.
Badeh said this while speaking with journalists at the
end of a meeting between the leadership of the
nation’s defence sector and the Chief of Defence Staff
of Chad, Maj. Gen. Brahim Mahammat, and other top
officers from Chad in Abuja on Friday.
He added that the 5,000 soldiers deployed specifically
to work with the Chadians were in addition to all
Nigerian forces available to fight the insurgents.
The CDS said the Chadian troops had commenced
operation from Gamboru Ngala while Nigerian
troops were operating from the South with an
arrangement to meet somewhere at the centre.
Badeh and his Chadian counterpart signed a
Memorandum of Understanding on the ongoing
allied operation against the Boko Haram after six
hours of a closed-door meeting of senior military and
security personnel from the two countries.
But the Defence Chief refused to disclose the details
in the MoU for security reasons.
Badeh said the Chadian military delegation was in
Abuja to clarify some grey areas involving the
operation which were sorted out during the six-hour
meeting.
The CDS, who was silent on the number of troops
being contributed by the Cameroonian to the joint
operation, also declined to speak on the casualty
figure suffered by the Cameroonians in the Boko
Haram attack on Fotokol, on Wednesday.
He said, “I want you to know that Chadian Forces in
Nigerian territory are mostly in the border town of
Fotokol and Gamboru Ngala on the basis of the
bilateral agreement we signed with them.
“We have been working together since. They came
here now to clear some grey areas; that is what we
have done. We have just met as an addendum to the
MoU that we signed on the January 18.
“I do not want to comment on how many Cameronian
soldiers that were killed on that side; let them
comment on it themselves.
But I know that Chad is bringing a force of about
2,000 to 2,500. Nigeria is taking all her forces; but
specifically to work with the Chadian Forces, we have
5,000 to work with them and that is what we have
there.
“The contribution from Cameroun, I am not very sure
of that for now. The Nigerien Forces, the MOU we
have with Niger, they are on their own side so that
the Boko Haram or the enemies won’t have the
opportunity to run into Niger to go and cause havoc
there.”
Badeh said the meeting with the Chadian Defence
forces should have come up earlier especially with
the urgent need to solve the problem of insurgency
as the nation moves into elections.

if it takes the 2 countries these years to get MOU only God knows how long it will take naija to develop. Even 7 years old baby knows this should av been done since.