Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari alerted recently that weapons from popular war in between Russia and Ukraine are now discovering their method into the Lake Chad Basin area.
Daily Trust reports that the president while speaking at the 16 th Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC), held at the Conference Hall of the Presidential Villa, stated all hands need to be on deck to combat the expansion of these weapons into the area.
The Daily Trust reported:
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday stated weapons from popular war in between Russia and Ukraine are now slipping into the Lake Chad Basin area.
Lake Chad area, a financially and socially incorporated location in West and Central Africa straddling Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria.
In his opening address at the 16 th Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC), held at the Conference Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Buhari, who is likewise the Chairman of the Summit, stated the scenario which had actually increased the expansion of little arms and light weapons required rekindling of the border security of the nations of the area.
President Buhari stated the Russia/Ukraine dispute and other violent scenarios in the Sahel area of West Africa had actually intensified the Boko Haram terrorism in the Lake Chad Basin area.
Buhari included:
” Regrettably, the scenario in the Sahel and popular war in Ukraine act as significant sources of weapons and fighters that strengthen the ranks of the terrorists in Lake Chad Region. A considerable percentage of the arms and ammos acquired to carry out the war in Libya, continues to discover its method to the Lake Chad Region and other parts of the Sahel. Defense being utilized for the war in Ukraine and Russia are similarly starting to filter to the area.
” This prohibited motion of arms into the area has actually increased the expansion of little arms and light weapons which continues to threaten our cumulative peace and security in the area. There is for that reason, the immediate requirement for expedited collective actions by our border control firms and other security services to stop the flow of all unlawful weapons in the area,” he stated.
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