The Nigerian President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has urged the country’s international allies to designate the Nnamdi Kanu-led Indigenous People of Biafra as a terrorist organisation.
Buhari made this call in an interview with Bloomberg on Tuesday.
Fielding questions on the country’s security problems, Buhari stated that his administration acquired fighter jets from the United States and engaged in intelligence sharing with the United Kingdom to prosecute the war against insurgency in the country.
He noted that previous administrations did not enjoy such privileges from the West.
Buhari said terrorists no longer hold any territory in Nigeria unlike what obtained in 2015 when “Boko Haram held territory the size of Belgium within the borders of Nigeria.”
The President claimed that “the leader of ISWAP (Islamic State’s West Africa Province) was eliminated by a Nigerian Airforce airstrike in March,” and other leaders of terrorist organisations in the…
