{"id":4492,"date":"2025-01-25T09:51:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T09:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psmnigeria.org\/?p=4492"},"modified":"2025-01-25T09:53:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T09:53:27","slug":"why-nigerian-military-hasnt-wiped-out-boko-haram-for-16-years-cds-musa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psmnigeria.org\/?p=4492","title":{"rendered":"Why Nigerian military hasn\u2019t wiped out Boko Haram for 16 years \u2013 CDS, Musa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, has explained why the fight against the Boko Haram terrorist groups has lasted for so long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The group began sophisticated attacks, initially against soft targets, but progressed in 2011 to include suicide bombings of police buildings and the United Nations office in Abuja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/account.microsoft.com\/privacy\/ad-settings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government\u2019s establishment of a state of emergency at the beginning of 2012, extended in the following year to cover the entire northeast of Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apart from the killing of tens of thousands of innocent citizens in the region, about 2.3 million people have been displaced by the conflict since May 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Appearing on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today programme on Friday, the Chief of Defence Staff highlighted issues that might have led to the military\u2019s prolonged battle with the insurgents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis Boko Haram thing is a lot. Then I tell you this, for them to have survived for 16 years and are still fighting, how are they getting their funding? Who\u2019s sustaining them? Because they cannot just be doing it actively just like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat I tell people is- no country should allow this kind of thing to commence. It is a difficult operation to eradicate, extremely difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/popup.taboola.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBecause before now, when we had the conventional kind of warfare, you are fighting a country. You know you\u2019re fighting for territory. You want to achieve something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNow you are fighting with people that have nothing to lose. It is an ideology they have in their minds. They believe they are right and you are wrong. He believes if he kills you, he\u2019s getting a blessing. If you kill him, he\u2019s going to heaven. That\u2019s absolutely nothing to lose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat makes it very, very difficult, and it\u2019s not written on their foreheads. So, how do you identify who is who?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnd they\u2019ve realized that we obey international laws, they don\u2019t. So what do they do? They use human shields. Anytime they have anything, they go with people, so that you cannot attack them, you cannot shoot, and that\u2019s what makes it so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen people say, why is it taking so long? It is a very, very difficult operation to do, because you make the mistake, you kill some people, and your country comes after you. If you don\u2019t kill them [the terrorists], and they continue striving. So, in both ways, you are at the receiving end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/account.microsoft.com\/privacy\/ad-settings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBecause you are wearing a uniform, you can be identified. You are, by law, constitutionally held down on certain things that you must obey. So those are the issues we are facing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou know, like I told you, if it was conventional warfare with the equipment, armaments we have now, we\u2019ll go to a community and flatten the entire community where they live. 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