An extra- ordinary meeting of
Heads of State and Governments of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC
including President Muhammadu Buhari , his Chadian counterpart, Idris Deby Itno
and others is currently ongoing in Abuja to adopt a report on the Boko Haram
insurgency.
The meeting which is a follow up
to a similar meeting held in N’djamena, the Chadian capital last month was
convened for the adoption of a report of the LCBC security and defence
committee on the Boko Haram insurgency.
Other African leaders attending
the crucial meeting are President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger Republic, and
Prime Minister of Cameroon, Philemon Yang, who represented President Paul Biya.
In his remark during the opening
ceremony, President Buhari who is the chairman of the LCBC, said the adoption
of the report of the committee would bring a dynamism into the fight against
the insurgents.
Insisting that the Boko Haram war
must be won,he said the time has come for evil of the Boko Haram to be brought
to a definite end.
President Buhari told his
colleagues and security chiefs at the event, that this, “is a fight to the
finish.”
The
African leaders have gone into a closed session after the opening ceremony. The
closed session is expected to last for five hours .
At the end of the meeting today,
a communiqué would be issued on the new strategy to be adopted in the fight
against Boko Haram.
Details soon…
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