Talks have been taking place since Monday on the exact remit of an 8,700-strong force comprising troops from Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon and Benin, to take on the Islamists in northeast Nigeria. But Buhari said proposals for a six-month rotating command between the five nations could hamper operations and called for a Nigerian to remain in charge until the militants were defeated. “Six months duration as it is being proposed… does not augur well for effectiveness and efficiency,” he told a heads of state and government meeting of the countries involved in Abuja. “Such a process will undermine, even if it is not intended, the military capacity to sustain the push against the insurgents, who also have the uncanny ability to adapt and rejig their operational strategies. Read more on vanguard.
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