The #BringBackOurGirls group will today storm the Chadian Embassy in
Abuja to protest against the alleged supply of weapons by its government
official.
The group, which has been advocating for the rescue of the remaining
219 school girls abducted from Government Secondary School, Chibok,
seven months ago, wondered why the government of Chad has always been
fingered in the fight against the Boko Haram insurgency.
BBOG further listed issues such as the botched ceasefire deal which
was celebrated across the country and handled by the Chadian President,
Idriss Déby, and now the report of Mr Mahamat Bichara Gnoti, his close
associate, as very implicating of the Chadian government.
The group noted that with the ceasefire deal, the Nigeria government
and the Nigeria people relaxed and put their trust in the Chadian
president, only for the Boko Haram to capture more towns and fail to
release the Chibok girls.
LEADERSHIP recalls that Mr Gnoti was reported to have been
apprehended on the Chadian-Sudan border with 19 SAM2 missiles, which he
allegedly purchased from the Sudanese army for the Boko Haram
terrorists.
An online media, Saharareporters quoted a Cameroonian
investigative journalist, Bisong Etahoben, via his Twitter, as saying
that Mr Gnoti claimed that President Idriss Déby gave him “the funds to
purchase the weapons, waved a presidential pass issued to him by Mr
Deby’s office in order to get past border guards, but was stopped and
searched by the guards who found the deadly weapons on him.”
Meanwhile, President Goodluck Jonathan had also on Monday paid an
emergency visit to Chad where he held a closed-door meeting with the
country’s president, Déby.
After the closed-door, President Jonathan reiterated the need for
Nigeria and her neighbours to intensify joint actions and cooperation to
win the war against terrorism and insurgency.
The president, according to Reuben Abati, told reporters that Boko
Haram had a lot of external influence from outside Africa and it had
become even more imperative for all countries in the region to work
together to overcome terrorism and other criminal activities across
their borders.
Source:
Leadership Newspaper
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