Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has alleged internal sabotage in Nigeria\u2019s fight against insurgency, following an attack on his convoy on Wednesday, July 29 in Baga town in Kukuwa Local Government Area of the State, where he went to distribute relief materials. He stated this while speaking to a delegation of the All Progressives Governors\u2019 forum led by Kebbi State Governor, Atiku Bagudu on Sunday, August 2, who paid a solidarity visit to the governor. \u00a0According to Zulum, \u201cThere is sabotage in this operation that didn\u2019t allow the insurgency to end.\u201d He therefore urged President Muhammadu Buhari to re-examine the security situation in the State. The ambush on the governor\u2019s convoy by gunmen occurred in Baga, a town that had been under the control of insurgents until recently the Nigerian military declared its liberation from the control of the Boko Haram terrorist group. The governor had earlier expressed his displeasure at the Nigerian army over the incident, questioning the identity of persons behind the attackers, since the Army had stated that no Nigerian territory was under the control of Boko Haram. This is the second attack on the governor\u2019s convoy within one year. It will be recalled that Governor Zulum\u2019s convoy was attacked at Konduga town in September 2019, while returning from a trip to Bama Local\u00a0 Government Area <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Borno State, the epicentre of the Boko Haram insurgency experienced a\nseries of violent incidents in the past week. Shortly after the attack on the governor,\non Thursday, July 30, several explosions occurred in some parts of Maiduguri,\nthe Borno State capital, in which at least one person was confirmed dead and 16\nothers injured. Again, the perpetrators of these attacks are unknown, and the\nPolice Command in the State is reported to be conducting investigations to\nascertain the cause of the explosions. Less than 24 hours after the explosions, President Buhari in an interview\nstated that his administration inherited the Boko Haram insurgency and added that\n\u201cNigerians know that we have done our best,\u201d with regard to the insecurity\nplaguing the country. He however, stated that security agencies could do much better in tackling\ninsecurity in the North West and North Central zones. The President\u2019s statement\non the efforts of his administration raised heavy criticism from Nigerians. Several\nNigerians raise concern that there are interests profiting from Nigeria\u2019s\nunending Boko Haram insurgency war. Soldiers have accused their commanders of\nnot spending budgeted sums for their welfare. In addition, accusations have\nbeen made that internal sabotage has led to a situation where military\nintelligence for operations are often leaked to the insurgents leading to\nambush and killing of soldiers fighting in the war. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has alleged internal sabotage in Nigeria\u2019s fight against insurgency, following an attack on his convoy on Wednesday, July 29 in Baga town in Kukuwa Local Government Area of the State, where he went to distribute relief materials. He stated this while speaking to a delegation of the All Progressives […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[120],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-borno-governor-accuses-army-of-sabotage-in-boko-haram-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1626,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions\/1626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}