Contents of the letter on ways to tackle the Boko Haram insurgency, presented by a Borno delegation to President Muhammadu Buhari last Monday have emerged.
The delegation led by Governor Kashim Shettima, had former governors, religious leaders, traditional rulers, elders, national and state assembly members, local government chairmen, women groups, the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) and labour unions.
Governor Shettima explained what was tendered to the president was the outcome of an extraordinary security meeting which he convened in Maiduguri on December 31, 2018.
In the letter containing 12 security-related observations and 10 demands, the president was urged to ask the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai why the 800 Civilian JTF fighters recruited into the Nigerian Army by him, were not deployed to Borno state to fight Boko Haram.
The media authoritatively gathered that the observation was the seventh in the letter while the fifth appealed to President Buhari to order the immediate deployment of the ex-CJTF fighters as they were courageous and understood Borno terrain better than most soldiers deployed from other parts of Nigeria.
The seventh observation reads: “That, as observed by the leadership of the Civilian JTF without contrary view (from the military) at the meeting, majority of over 800 members of the Civilian JTF enlisted into the Nigerian Army are currently not deployed to Borno State where they can use their local knowledge of communities, in the fight against Boko Haram”.
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