Nigeria fury over US arms refusal
BBC, Nov 11 2014
Just another mad motherfucker, prolly works for the CIA, who cares anyway – RB
Nigeria’s ambassador to Usaia has criticised Washington for refusing to sell his government more lethal weapons to fight Boko Haram. Nigeria needed support to deliver the “killer punch”, not “light jabs” against Boko Haram, Adebowale Ibidapo Adefuye said. His comments came as Boko Haram seized the north-eastern town of Mahia. Adefuye told the CFR in Washington:
The Usaian government has up till today refused to grant Nigeria’s request to purchase lethal equipment that would have brought down the terrorists within a short time. We find it difficult to understand how and why, in spite of the Usaian presence in Nigeria with their sophisticated military technology, Boko Haram should be expanding and becoming more deadly. Boko Haram is Nigeria’s equivalent of ISIS. It threatens the nation’s territorial integrity. There is no use giving us the type of support that enables us to deliver light jabs to the terrorists when what we need to give them is the killer punch. A friend in need is a friend indeed. The true test of friendship is in times of adversity.
Boko Haram has recently changed tactics, focusing on holding on to territory rather than launching hit-and-run raids. It has now captured Mahia to add to the territory the group already controls, our reporter says. It is a small town near Mubi, the second largest town in Adamawa state, which Boko Haram last week renamed Madinat’ul-Islam. In April, Boko Haram sparked global outrage by abducting more than 200 girls from a boarding school in Chibok town in Borno state. Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has dismissed government claims to have agreed a ceasefire, under which the girls would be released. He says the children have converted to Islam, are learning to memorise the Qur’an, and have been married off. Usaia, Ukia, Israel and China had all promised to help Nigeria track down the girls. Well, so much for that. Here is the map of Boko’s conquests to date:
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