by Eze Eluchie
In Central
African Republic, the Chadian Army had to be booted out of the United Nations
Peace Keeping Mission when it was discovered that Chadian soldiers were aiding
the Seleka (Islamist) militia in perpetuating various mass killings and to
fight against the authorities of Central African Republic (C.A.R.)
Prior to the
Boko Haram attack on Baga, the Chadian Army contingent to the multi-national
forces in Baga surreptitiously withdrew approximately 2 days to the BH attack
on Baga, leaving the Nigerian troops totally outnumbered and ill-prepared for
what was a premeditated assault on Baga by BH.
A great
majority of BH terrorists captured or killed in their various engagements with
the Nigerian military are of Chadian origin. The President of Chad, actively
participated in and served as broker/host of ‘ceasefire negotiation’ between
Nigeria and BH, negotiations which basically served to malign the Nigerian
State and his Nigerian counterpart, whilst affording BH greater public relations mileage.
That this
same Chadian Army is now sending a full battalion to ‘join the war against BH’
should be a clear source of concerned to all that the war against BH may be
about to take a horrifying exponential escalation – Nigeria may now not only be
fighting Islamist insurgents, but in addition, and as of now probably a national
army.
Ordinarily,
the Chadian military would not pose problems for their Nigerian counterparts –
but when an Army is infused with an amorphous terrorist entity, the situation
becomes without precedence and the rules of engagement quite murky. The situation
for the Nigeria military is made more precarious when one considers the seeming
willingness of some agencies to allege all manners of imagined and probable
infringement of international conflict protocols against our military.
It gets
worse before it gets better.
Picture:
Chadian soldiers readying for a deployment.
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