Nigeria's Fight Against Boko Haram Amid Western Hypocrisy

9 November 2014
analysis

Nigeria must look inwards, away from the West, for solution to the Boko Haram menace. Vincent Obia writes

When in April more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped in Borno State by the Boko Haram terrorist group, the world rushed in sundry promises of assistance. Most remarkable was the Western world, led by the United States, which promised, among other things, to aid Nigeria with satellite information on the movement of the insurgents in the border forests of the North-east. More than six months after, Nigeria is still hoping and arguing about the pledged assistance, while the abducted students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, continue to agonise in slavery.

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