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Urged FG to do the Needful
The former leader of the Senate, Senator Ali Ndume, has ascribes the recent renewed Boko Haram Attacks in the North East of Nigeria to poor funding of the Nigerian Armed Forces, and the inadequate troops that were prosecuting the insurgency.
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, who disclosed this during an interview with Newsmen, said the attacks will continue unless the critical challenges confronting the nation’s armed forces are urgently addressed.
“The challenge that the military have now is lack of resources and inadequate personnel. As long as the resources are not deployed in terms of what they would need, we would continue to have this (insurgency) challenge.
“In an operation like this, we have only 30, 000 soldiers on ground which is grossly inadequate. They (Federal Government) have to do something urgently about that.”
Ndume also expressed fear over the refusal of residents of the three local government areas recently sacked by the Boko Haram terrorists in Borno State to return to their ancestral homes.
“The civilians ran away because of the fears of what would happen to them. They refused to come back. The governor is now appealing to the military to secure the areas so that the residents could return.”
He urged the Federal Government to do the needful to ensure the early return of the residents.
The senator, who described the renewed insurgency in the North-East as very unfortunate, expressed confidence in the ability of the Nigerian Armed Forces to restore normalcy to the zone as soon as possible.
