President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday stated that the Nigerian
Military are yet to find any credible intelligence linking Boko Haram’s source
of weaponry to the Islamic State (IS) even as Boko haram claims to have pledged
allegiance to the Islamic State.
President Buhari disclosed this after the conclusion of the second
Regional Security Summit in Abuja. He admitted that the major source of the
group’s sophisticated weaponry was from the various 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 armory, this is 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’’.
President Buhari further dismissed the notion that members
of the Civilian Joint Task Force (JTF) helping in the counter-insurgency
operation in the North East would become a threat to security in their various
communities and disclosed that the Civilian JTF were carefully constituted by
the various state government, emphasizing that there was an extensive plan to
rehabilitate them in the government’s post insurgency programme.
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