Indications emerged yesterday that the leadership of the nation’s security agencies are not comfortable with the role of the United States in the on-going fight against Boko Haram insurgency in the country.
A top security source that confided in our Correspondent stressed that, apart from the outright refusal of USA to supply the needed arms and ammunitions to Nigerian Military, Washington has constantly gone underground, to blocked plans by Nigeria to purchase arms from other willing countries.The top security personnel who spoke to under condition of anonymity, noted that the same American who told the world that they were coming to assist Nigeria in the fight against terrorism, ended up frustrating the fight by refusing to cooperate with Nigerian soldiers.It would be recalled that international communities, including the United States, were in Nigeria, shortly after the abduction of the Chibok girls, last year and were granted free access to Nigeria’s security facilities, only to end up sabotaging efforts to procure arms to end the war on terror.“When they came, they were given access to the nation’s military control centre. Since they refused to sell us arms and equipment for whatever reasons, we thought they will provide us with intelligence reports on the movements of these terrorists because they have drones and satellite tracking systems which would have assisted us a lot”.But as I am talking with you, they are not providing us the information we need. They say they are gathering information. What are they doing with the information?If they were helping us with information, the movement of Boko Haram terrorists in the night because it is a terrain they understand very well, would have been tracked and the intelligence made available to Nigerian military. But they are not helping.”“What is surprising to us is that the same United States is sending fighter aircraft to support the fight against ISIS in Syria; supporting the fight against terrorism in Libya, Yemen and Afghanistan. Why is the fight against Boko Haram which they have tagged a terrorist organization different?”
The senior intelligence officer added that it would be better for the US not to be seen around in Nigeria North East zone of the country, than for them to be here and their present is not felt at all. “Meanwhile, our critics, would not understand, they wont know that the US is not assisting us in anyway. Rather they would say, despite US assistance, Nigerian Army can not exterminate Boko Haram.”
