Why Military Hasn’t Wiped Out Boko Haram – Chief Of Defence Explains

Demilade BakareJanuary 25, 2025463

Why Military Hasn't Wiped Out Boko Haram - Chief Of Defence Explains | Daily Report Nigeria

The Chief Of Defence has highlighted some reasons the country is still facing the insurgency of Boko Haram.
According to Musa, some of the issues include the secret funding if the terrorist organizations by unknown persons.
He also added that the terrorists are fueled by the ideology that they have nothing to lose.

Christopher Musa, Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff has given reasons for the prolonged invasion of terrorist group, Boko Haram.

Daily Report Nigeria recalls a lot of attacks and invasions by the group, part of which include the abduction of Chibok girls.

Boko Haram Invade Mosque, Kill Imam, Others — Boko Haram group

Other attacks include suicide bombing of a police building and the United Nations office in Abuja in 2011.

Speaking during an interview on Channels TV on Friday, January 24, Musa said;

This 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’s sustaining them? Because they cannot just be doing it actively just like that.

“What I tell people is- no country should allow this kind of thing to commence. It is a difficult operation to eradicate, extremely difficult.

“Because before now, when we had the conventional kind of warfare, you are fighting a country. You know you’re fighting for territory. You want to achieve something.

“Now 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’s getting a blessing. If you kill him, he’s going to heaven. That’s absolutely nothing to lose.

“That makes it very, very difficult, and it’s not written on their foreheads. So, how do you identify who is who?

“And they’ve realized that we obey international laws, they don’t. 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’s what makes it so.

“When 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’t kill them [the terrorists], and they continue striving. So, in both ways, you are at the receiving end.

“Because 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.

“You know, like I told you, if it was conventional warfare with the equipment, armaments we have now, we’ll go to a community and flatten the entire community where they live. We’ll end this in the very short term, but you can’t do that anymore.”