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How Buhari Stopped Us From Fighting Boko Haram- South African Mercenary by AKwinde(op): 7:41pm On Nov 26, 2018

The founder of Specialized Tasks,
Training, Equipment and Protection,
(STTEP), Eeben Barlow, has revealed how
President Muhammadu Buhari stopped
them from carrying on fighting Boko-
Haram terrorists in Nigeria in 2015.
In a Facebook post, Barlow said their
proposal was antagonised and politicised
by Buhari and his team “even before they
assumed office.”
“The initial 3-phase campaign strategy
(known as ‘Operational Anvil’) to degrade
and destroy BH in Borno State, was
rejected by his advisors,” Barlow added.
Barlow, further, stated that the company
was willing to stay back in the north east
but the President “made it known that
the company’s presence would not be
tolerated under his office.”
In 2014, former President Goodluck
Jonathan, in his bid to put an end to the
insurgency turned to STTEP, a South
African private military contractor, to
provide training in new weapons and
tactics to the Nigerian Army.
But the organization withdrew from the
battle in March 2015 following the
emergence of Buhari in February of the
same year.
The organization’s leader also said that
prior to, and following their departure
from Nigeria, they issued “numerous
intelligence warnings” to the president
but all was to no avail.
“These warnings covered the implications
of not allowing the 72 MSF to annihilate
BH in Borno province; the plans by Boko
Haram to re-arm and escalate their
activities; the implications of regional
spill-over, the impact on the armed
forces; and so forth,” Barlow said.
Barlow also opined that the recent attack
by the Boko haram sect ‘negates’
Buhari’s promise of defeating the
Islamist insurgents, a key promise of
Buhari’s 2015 election campaign. The
government continues to insist the
deadly jihadists have been “technically
defeated”.
“His narrative that Boko Haram was
‘technically defeated’ was false as soon as
he uttered those word,” Barlow affirmed
in the post.
Barlow’s lashing of the anti-terror war is
coming days after reports in the country
revealed that the sect on Sunday,
November 18 overran a Nigerian Army,
157 Task Force Battalion, in Metele,
Borno state. The deadly attack left at
least 44 soldiers.
However, an officer who was caught in
the attack on the troops at Metele told a
foreign News platform, Reuters, that “the
insurgents took us unawares. We lost
about 100 soldiers. It is a huge loss.”
The attack is one the most brazen since
Buhari came to power in 2015 and it has
increased the pressure on him to act fast
to nip the crisis in the bud ahead of the
election in February 2019, not least
because he has claimed victory over the
nine-year insurgency.

Source:
https://guardian.ng/news/how-buhari-stopped-us-from-fighting-boko-haram-
south-african-mercenary/

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