DETAILS: Why US Govt Refused to Assist Nigeria With Tech to Fight Boko Haram Published On: Wed, Nov 12th, 2014 Africa / OpEd | By NewsRescue Janjaweed Connection: President Jonathan embraces Borno ex governor implicated as Boko Haram sponsor Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United States, Prof Ade Adefuye suggested recently that the United States willingly refused to assist Nigeria with technology to fight Boko Haram. Adefuye told members of the Council on Foreign Relations on Monday that “The Nigerian leadership… are not satisfied with the scope, nature and content of the United States’ support for us in our struggle against terrorists,”. He added further that “We find it difficult to understand how and why in spite of the US presence in Nigeria with their sophisticated military technology Boko Haram should be expanding and becoming more deadly,” Since the Boko Haram insurgency started, I am personally aware, through reliable military and diplomatic sources that the United States had always availed Nigeria of list of those they suspect to be sponsors of Boko Haram. Immediately after the United Nations House Bombings at Abuja in August 26th 2011, the US, alarmed by the sheer tactility of the operations, availed Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan of the list of the sponsors of Boko Haram and was advised to act fast before they disintegrate Nigeria. This fact formed part of an earlier published piece in2 012 titled’ PDP Boko Haram and their 2015 Succession Politics’ where I stated that “Immediately after the bombings of the United Nations headquarters in Abuja, intelligence reports indicted high level friends of government in the executive, legislature, senior party officials, elder statesmen and security officers including retired ones. It is expected that President Goodluck will seize the opportunity of the uproar and outrage against the bombings to confront the indicted senior members of the party. Instead he chose to appeal to some of them to turn a new leaf. Emboldened by presidential timidity the murderers recruited more high level personalities, hitherto sitting on the fence, into the murderous chess game”. The president continued to foot drag on taking actions till the Madallah Christmas Day Bombings which took over 80 lives in the same year 2011 before a traumatized Goodluck Jonathan admitted two weeks later on the 8th of January 2012, for the first time, that Boko Haram Sponsors have infiltrated his government. The military authorities, then under Generals Owoye Azazi as NSA and Azubuike Ihejirika as Army Chief including other service chiefs pushed for the arrest of the political sponsors of the group, most of which were still in the ruling party. Jonathan was said to have replied that arresting key political figures would scatter his government. Thus political expediency and 2015 elections permutations overshadowed the earlier resolve of the military authorities to stamp out the insurgents until some of them decided to help themselves with a bit of the national cake politicians are looting with impunity, before their tenure expires. It was a frustrated Azazi, aware of the mistrustful observation of the US, which came to Asaba and exposed to the nation that the real sponsors of Boko Haram are in the PDP. Azazi was hounded for his frank observation till Jonathan was forced to sack him as NSA, and replaced him with a northerner. Months after Azazi’s sack, contrary to the advice that some of us gave him, he continued to gallivant around Jonathan until his enemies (sponsors of Boko Haram) plotted an helicopter accident for him. All these developments were not lost on the US military and defense analysts and advisers. The public outcry against the abduction of some 276 girls of Christian extraction from Chibok, by the terrorists, and the fear that if the conspiracy is misunderstood by Nigerian Christians, a religious conflict might ensue.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 14:20:35 +0000
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