Nigeria and Chad may be heading for a diplomatic showdown over indications that Boko Haram are receiving huge supply of arms from the northeastern neighbour of Africa’s largest economy.
Indications emerged recently that a number of gunrunners had been arrested by Cameroonian authorities with huge cache of arms heading from Chad to Boko Haram insurgents, New Telegraph reports.
Cameroonian police and Customs recently dismantled a network of arms dealers based in a Chadian border town, Kousseri, who had been supplying weapons to Boko Haram.The joint operation led to several arrests after the Cameroonian officials turned down a 2.5 million FCFA bribe. There were also indications that some government officials and clerics living close to Chad’s border with Nigeria had joined the terrorgroup, due to inducements from its commanders.
This discovery adds to the recent phoney ceasefire deal which Chadian President, Idris Deby, reportedly packaged between Nigeria and Boko Haram.
The fake peace deal, which led to the Nigerian military high command ordering troops to stop hostilities against Boko Haram, led to deadly consequences as the terrorists attacked some villages in Borno and Adamawa states in North- East Nigeria within hours of the announcement of the ceasefire. These developments are said to have perplexed Nigeria’s political and military leaders.
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