– President Buhari denied the claim that the Boko Haram was
getting its arms and ammunition from ISIS
– He says the
insurgents use weaponry stolen from Nigerian army
– The president
announced a broad plan to rehabilitate Civilian JTF fighting Boko Haram
President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed where the deadly Boko Haram sect was
getting its arms and ammunition, Vanguard reports. The president while speaking
with journalists after the closing of the second Regional Security Summit in
Abuja denied linking Boko Haram’s source of weaponry to the Islamic State (IS).
Buhari stated that this claim remained unconfirmed. He said
a key source of the group’s sophisticated arms was from the different military
and police bases attacked at the peak of the insurgency in the affected
countries.
He said: “The type of
weapons they are using, I believe were the ones taken from military bases they
attacked at the peak of the insurgency especially in Nigeria. “If you recall
they attacked military bases and carted away weapons, they attacked police
stations and broke into their armouries, that was how they got the kind of
weapons they have been using to fight. “Frankly, up till now we don’t have
firm intelligence of what IS has been able to send to Boko Haram in terms of
weapons or even money. “But the fact that they said they are affiliated to IS
has made many people to believe that they were getting weapons from ISIS,’’ the
president added. At the same time President Buhari relieved fears that members
of the Civilian Joint Task Force (JTF) assisting in the counter-insurgency
operation in the North East would constitute the threat to security in their
communities.
According to the president, the Civilian JTF were carefully
formed by the different state governments, underlining that there was a broad
plan to rehabilitate them in government’s post insurgency programme. The United
States, Britain, Equatorial Guinea, the European Union, ECOWAS, the Economic
Community of Central African States and the Gulf of Guinea Commission were
represented at the summit which had the successful conclusion of ongoing
military operations against Boko Haram at the top of its agenda.
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