… exonorates neither Buhari, Buratai but blame Theater Command, Control Centre
SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri
Borno State Governor Babagana Umara Zulum has said that “there is complete sabotage in the fight against insurgency in the North East and the attacked on his convoyn”.
He also asserted that the Federal government have to look into the Command Control structure of the Nigerian military high command within the theater command of operation Lafiyà Dole in Maiduguri.
Zulum, who was in BHTs stronghold and volatile town of Baga town on anassessment visit on the possibility of how the IDPs from the town can return to their homes have to whisked into the Federal Special Anti Robbery Squard ( FSARS) armoured carrrier vehicles and sneaked out of the town.
Speaking on the Baga town attack on his convoy in an interview with Journalists Thursday in Monguno, Governor Zulum said, ” as far as I am concern,what happened in Baga is a complete sabotage by the military. There is no Boko Hatam in Baga”.
‘I wonder , we have over 1181 soldiers in Baga, 72 officers,, 107 solders, 400 soldiers in mile 4 and 1900 solders in Monguno. I see no reason why only 5 Boko Haram will stop them from occupying Baga town.”, Zulum said.
The governor added, ” the troops have been in mile 4 for over one year. There is complete sabotage. The problem is not with President Buhari, or General Buratai but the Command and Control stricture. .There is need to looked into command structure.”
” We have over 80,000 IDPs in Monguno. They cannot continue to depend on INGO and others for food,. We have create opportunity for them to go back to their communities and continue with their business and farming activites.
“After Sallah we are going allow people to go back to kukawa and we will give time to the military, if they will not clear Baga, we will mobilized our hunters, CJTF, and Vigilantes to recapture Baga , we cannot continue like this. People have to take their destiny in their hsnds.” Zulum said
The governor who first visited Kukawa town, the headquarters of Kujawa Local Government Area before proceeding to Baga town to inspect the Lake Chad Water ways which provide job opportunities to over 10 million fishermen or people who engaged in farming and fishing activities in the Borno North, has been denied Access by the military while the residents were displaced when BHTs launched a serious Attacks k on the famous fish town, Baga.
It could be recalled that members of the Boko Haram insurgents had attacked and sacked residents of Baga town including the headquarters of Multi National Joint Task Force ( MNJTF) and the hoisted their Flags in 2015 wjich was reclaimed by the Nigerian and Multi National Forces since then there wasv no civilian presence in the town.
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