US Ambassador says Nigeria’s Military is ‘chronically under-resourced’, can’t handle Boko Haram challenge

According to a report on Huffington’s World Post, the former United States Ambassador to Nigeria and Senior fellow for Africa Policy Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, Mr. John Campbell  has said the Nigerian Military lacks the capacity to manage the country ordinarily and unprepared for a challenge like Boko Haram.

John Campbell said; “Nigeria’s military is chronically under-resourced — low on numbers, equipment and morale, Pham said. “Even if Nigeria was at peace, the military would not be commensurate with the size and importance of the country, let alone a country facing a challenge like Boko Haram,” he told The WorldPost.

Concerning the war against Boko Haram, Amb. Campbell said;  “It would take a highly sophisticated military supported by an extremely strong government to carry out such a task,” Campbell said. “The U.S. couldn’t do it in Afghanistan or Iraq.”

He said that the group’s tenacity also suggests some measure of popular support in the marginalized northeast, particularly as a form of rebellion against corrupt local religious elites. “This makes the conflict more akin to a civil war, and makes it even harder to achieve a decisive military victory over a single force,” Campbell said.

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