Nigeria is bearing the financial burden of the operations
by multinational forces against Boko Haram insurgents,
findings by The PUNCH on Sunday have revealed.
The troops from Nigeria’s neighbours – Chad and Niger
– it was learnt in Abuja, receive N146.25m monthly as
pocket and feeding allowances from the Federal
Government.
The sum is however different from that paid by Nigeria
for fuelling of the operational vehicles of the foreign
troops and other logistics, which our source did not
state.
A breakdown of the N146.2m shows that the 2,500
troops contributed by Chad receive N112.5m monthly
while the 750 soldiers from Niger get N33.75m.
Thus each of the soldiers from the two countries gets
N45,000 monthly as pocket and feeding allowances, the
same amounts paid their Nigerian counterparts.
The joint war was initiated by the governments of
Nigeria, Chad and Niger to flush out the insurgents
from the North-East and to halt their incursion into the
two Francophone countries.
It was further gathered that the two Francophone
countries, are in addition to the allowances paid by
Nigeria, making demands for funding by the
international community.
Our source, who asked to remain anonymous because
he was not permitted to speak on the issue, said,
“Although, it is a joint operation, a kind of sub-regional
collaborative effort, Nigeria is the only country funding
the operations.
“The arrangement is not such that each participating
country funds its defence forces deployed for the
operation.
“Nigeria is funding the operation to the extent of
providing the allowances for all the Chadian and
Nigerien troops involved.
“Apart from that, the country is also providing for the
feeding of these troops and fuelling all their operational
vehicles.”
It was further gathered that in spite of the sacrifices
being made by the Federal Government, the joint
operation is being threatened by mutual suspicion.
There are allegations that reports about the conflict in
the international media are being manipulated by
Chadians in the mission area to portray Nigerian troops
in bad light.
It was learnt that the Defence Headquarters was not
comfortable with the slanting of stories to highlight
supposed exploits of the supporting countries to the
detriment of the Nigerian forces and indeed the
country.
The report that Chadian troops liberated Damasak, a
border community between Nigeria and Niger on March
9, 2015 was mentioned as one of such.
In it, the Chadians were reported to have killed 200
insurgents while liberating the town.
However, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Kenneth
Minimah, told journalists on Monday that the town was
still in terrorists’ hands.
It was further gathered that the mutual suspicion was
exacerbated by an incident which resulted in the killing
of an unspecified number of Nigerian troops by
insurgents on their way to Dikwa.
The New York Times quoted the Chadian Foreign
Minister, Moussa Mahamat, as having said that “the
Nigerian Army has not succeeded in facing up to Boko
Haram.”
He had added, “The occupation of these towns, this is
up to Nigeria. My fondest wish is that they assume their
responsibilities.
“Our biggest wish is that the Nigerian Army pulls itself
together — that it takes responsibility in the towns. We
are ready to disengage, right away.”
However, the Director Defence Information, Maj. Gen.
Chris Olukolade, who dismissed the claim on Saturday,
said, “It is not true that our soldiers are not willing to
take over such communities. There is no town that our
soldiers have liberated that is not being well secured
and well patrolled at the moment.
“We have always warned against irresponsible comments
in this collaboration and we are not ready to join issues
with anybody. We will do everything to sustain this
collaboration.”
Attempts to get Olukolade to comment on Nigeria’s
financial commitment to the ongoing operation were
unsuccessful on Sunday.
Calls to his mobile telephone number did not connect
as of the time of 8pm.


source: http://www.punchng.com/news/bharam-nigeria-pays-chadian-nigerien-soldiers-n146m-monthly/

It's bit absurd. ."GIANTS OF AFRICA".

The primary duty of the FG is the security of the Nigerian territory and her citizens. If paying this money until we get rid of these miscreants#never again, then, it is not out of place. It is not more than what some of these politicians loot in a week.

I wish this guys would cordinate themselves properly and stop all this propagander.

good job FG....if we have to pay till we flush them buhari boys out..........please pay dem evn in dollars

Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JonAh don kill us finished........ Pratically , we don't have any military in this county. O ma se oooooOooooo