Poor Infrastructure Hindering War Against Boko Haram, Laments Chief of Army Staff
Collapse of infrastructure in the North East, particularly Borno State has been identified as a big problem in the war against Boko Haram in the area.
This was the lamentation of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai in Abuja when he paid a courtesy visit to the Chairman, North-east Development Commission (NEDC), Gen. Paul Tarfa (rtd).
He appealed to the Commission to find a solution to the collapse of infrastructure in the area.
Buratai said during the visit, “The insurgency in the North-east has led to the collapse of some of the available infrastructure in the region, which has impacted on our operations and the quick return of IDPs to their communities after the army has liberated their areas.
“One of this major roads, which traverse northern part of Borno State up to Sambisa forest and boarder with Cameroon, through part of Adamawa State, is the Damboa – Chibok- Askia road that links into Mandate mountains and comes back to Gwosa, Bama-Maiduguri. That particular road is quite critical and strategic to our ongoing counter insurgency operations”.
“The barracks in Bama and Monguno requires complete reconstruction, especially that of Bama. We have made concrete efforts to renovate so many other barracks within the country. But even that of Bama, we have started with meagre resources that we have to show the importance that we attached to that Barrack in Bama which is at epicentre of counter insurgency operation.”
He also appealed to the Commission to find a way of empowering widows and wards of soldiers who lost their lives in the war against insurgents.
Chairman of the commission in his response said the issue will be considered to support the army.
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