Nigeria Is Not Allowing Us To Go Further - Chadian Army

The Chadian president, Idriss Deby, has claimed that he is the one responsible for the current coordinated attacks on Boko Haram. 

President Deby said that if left to President Jonathan alone, nothing would have been done to tackle the terrorists.

Idriss Deby

Deby is said to be the one who was responsible for the attacks on Boko Haram camps, as the insurgents have been obstructing Chad’s trade routes with Nigeria.

Officials from three nations  who have been affected by the insurgency, Chad, Niger and Cameroon, say that Nigeria has failed to organise a regional task force against the terrorists, according to Reuters.

Diplomats have said that Nigeria has left the security work to be done by its significantly smaller neigbours, despite being one of Africa’s major powers.

Since Chad entered the war they have been able to press deep into the Islamist group’s area of control, and say they could have gone deeper but Nigeria has refused to let them in.

Chadian Army spokesman, Colonel Azem Bermandoa said: “We turned back because Nigeria did not authorise us to go any further.”

Chadian involvement in the war against Boko Haram has been praised highly by observers of the war against Boko Haram, as they have freed multiple cities in just a couple of weeks.