RECENT reports from US intelligence sources have
revealed that Nigerian military commanders leaked
plans to rescue the abducted Chibok girls to Boko
Haram terrorists which ended up botching the
operation.
On April 14, over 200 pupils were abducted from
Government Girls Secondary School Chibok in Borno
State, sparking an international outrage.
In response to the global outcry, the US sent spy
planes to Nigeria to help locate the girls and a plan
was agreed with the military to mount a daring
rescue operation.
However, according to two US Army generals, details
of the rescue mission was leaked to Boko Haram
before it could be put into operation, enabling the
terrorists to take preventative action.
Accusing the Nigerian Army of treason, the generals
revealed that that the war against Boko Haram was
purposefully sabotaged by the Nigerian government,
as if it would not, defeating the terrorists would not
have taken longer than a month.
US sources pulled out from helping Nigeria rescue
the missing Chibok girls after Washington discovered
that Boko Haram had been fed the details of a covert
rescue mission that would involve using gas.
Source said that as soon as the Americans arrived
and flew surveillance flights over Nigeria, they
located the girls and proposed gassing the areas in
the Sambisa Forest and then sending in a raid
mission to rescue the girls while their terrorist
captors were paralysed asleep.
However, shortly after Nigeria’s security chiefs were
given this plan in high confidence, its details were
leaked to Boko Haram who promptly acted to foil the
plot.
On its next surveillance flight over the area, the US
team saw the Boko Haram terrorists all wearing gas
masks.
US agents were very disappointed with this and
immediately afterwards, Washington announced that
it will no longer share information with Nigeria.
This was one of the major reasons why the US gave
up on a mission of working with the Jonathan
government and eventually pulled out of the fight
against Boko Haram.
According to military sources, it was this betrayal
that led to Washington sanctioning Nigeria and
preventing her from purchasing security equipment
because the US is not convinced of the sincerity of
the Jonathan government. Since the episode, the US
has refused to sell Nigeria military hardware amid
fears that it may end up in the hands of Boko Haram,
although the official reason given was the human
rights record of the Nigerian Army.
Since it began its operations in 2009, Boko Haram
has always managed to infiltrate the Nigerian
security forces where it has as lot of supporters and
sympathisers.
Terrorist cells are regularly tipped off about military
missions and have subsequently been able to lie in
ambush for Nigerian soldiers.
Of late, however, Boko Haram has been on the back
foot since the establishment of the regional Multi
National Joint Task Force.
Because the task force is made up of regional
neighbours Cameroon, Chad and Niger Republic,
Boko Haram has been unable to infiltrate it, ass their
troops have not been compromised.
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