President
Muhammadu Buhari has received the support of Francois Hollande, the French
president, in his efforts to find out the extent of terrorism co-operations
between Boko Haram and ISIS.
Hollande also commended Buhari
for his efforts to galvanize Nigeria’s armed forces, security agencies and
neighouring countries for more decisive action to eradicate the insurgent
group.
Speaking
at Elmau, Germany, during a meeting with his Nigerian counterpart after his
participation in G-7 Outreach programme, Hollande said his country would give
Nigeria and its coalition partners greater support, including military and
intelligence cooperation to help overcome the security challenge posed by Boko
Haram and its allies.
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He
also called for greater bilateral cooperation between Nigeria and France in
other areas, including trade, economic and cultural relations.
Responding,
Buhari said Nigeria would welcome greater support and cooperation from France
and other friendly nations.
He
reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to ending insurgency in the shortest
possible time, saying his government was already taking concrete action to
build a more efficient and effective coalition of Nigeria and neighbouring
countries against Boko Haram.
According
to Garba Shehu, senior special assistant to the president and media and
publicity, Buhari said he would “appreciate more intelligence on Boko Haram’s
links with ISIS, movements, training and sources of its arms and ammunition”.
Buhari
said this would facilitate the perfection of fresh tactics and strategies being
evolved overcome terrorism and insurgency in the country and its sub-region.
“There
is clearly no religious basis for the actions of the group. Their atrocities
show that members of the group either do not know God at all or they don’t
believe in him,” Buhari said.
Buhari
also received similar pledges of enhanced support from Stephen Harper, prime
minister of Canada and Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany, who he also
conferred with before departing from the venue of the G-7 2015 Summit.
Buhari is expected back in
Nigeria on Tuesday.
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