Nigeria is bearing the financial burden of the operations by multinational forces against Boko Haram insurgents, findings by The PUNCH on Sunday have revealed.

The troops from Nigeria’s neighbours – Chad and Niger – it was learnt in Abuja, receive N146.25m monthly as pocket and feeding allowances from the Federal Government.

The sum is however different from that paid by Nigeria for fuelling of the operational vehicles of the foreign troops and other logistics, which our source did not state.

A breakdown of the N146.2m shows that the 2,500 troops contributed by Chad receive N112.5m monthly while the 750 soldiers from Niger get N33.75m.

Thus each of the soldiers from the two countries gets N45,000 monthly as pocket and feeding allowances, the same amounts paid their Nigerian counterparts.

The joint war was initiated by the governments of Nigeria, Chad and Niger to flush out the insurgents from the North-East and to halt their incursion into the two Francophone countries.

It was further gathered that the two Francophone countries, are in addition to the allowances paid by Nigeria, making demands for funding by the international community.

Our source, who asked to remain anonymous because he was not permitted to speak on the issue, said, “Although, it is a joint operation, a kind of sub-regional collaborative effort, Nigeria is the only country funding the operations.

“The arrangement is not such that each participating country funds its defence forces deployed for the operation.

“Nigeria is funding the operation to the extent of providing the allowances for all the Chadian and Nigerien troops involved.

“Apart from that, the country is also providing for the feeding of these troops and fuelling all their operational vehicles.”

It was further gathered that in spite of the sacrifices being made by the Federal Government, the joint operation is being threatened by mutual suspicion.

There are allegations that reports about the conflict in the international media are being manipulated by Chadians in the mission area to portray Nigerian troops in bad light.

It was learnt that the Defence Headquarters was not comfortable with the slanting of stories to highlight supposed exploits of the supporting countries to the detriment of the Nigerian forces and indeed the country.

The report that Chadian troops liberated Damasak, a border community between Nigeria and Niger on March 9, 2015 was mentioned as one of such.

In it, the Chadians were reported to have killed 200 insurgents while liberating the town.

However, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minimah, told journalists on Monday that the town was still in terrorists’ hands.

It was further gathered that the mutual suspicion was exacerbated by an incident which resulted in the killing of an unspecified number of Nigerian troops by insurgents on their way to Dikwa.

The New York Times quoted the Chadian Foreign Minister, Moussa Mahamat, as having said that “the Nigerian Army has not succeeded in facing up to Boko Haram.”

He had added, “The occupation of these towns, this is up to Nigeria. My fondest wish is that they assume their responsibilities.

“Our biggest wish is that the Nigerian Army pulls itself together — that it takes responsibility in the towns. We are ready to disengage, right away.”

However, the Director Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, who dismissed the claim on Saturday, said, “It is not true that our soldiers are not willing to take over such communities. There is no town that our soldiers have liberated that is not being well secured and well patrolled at the moment.

“We have always warned against irresponsible comments in this collaboration and we are not ready to join issues with anybody. We will do everything to sustain this collaboration.”

Attempts to get Olukolade to comment on Nigeria’s financial commitment to the ongoing operation were unsuccessful on Sunday.

Calls to his mobile telephone number did not connect as of the time of 8pm.

http://www.punchng.com/news/bharam-nigeria-pays-chadian-nigerien-soldiers-n146m-monthly/


On a side note, Nigerian soldiers need to be paid better than the soldiers of Niger and Chad....

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unity...dats all we need from d joint forces to win this fight
in other news I still doff ma hat for Nigeria always d big brother

Well Chad will be annexing Nigerian territory and Nigeria is in collusion in order to break Nigeria up as ordered by rulers of Nigeria, that is America.

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GenBuhari:
Well Chad will be annexing Nigerian territory and Nigeria is in collusion in order to break Nigeria up as ordered by rulers of Nigeria America.

Read my signature

So is this Buhari plan?
Don't pollute this thread with you vile words!

146million!! And nigeria is broke. This money can be channeled into equipping our army Na. 10 months would equate to 1.46billion!
#saynotocluelessness

Okay

As long as the joint effort yields results,in other news,the FG should look into our NA salaries , they should compensate our soldiers by generally increasing their salaries .

Now the army is winning, trust punch to look for stories where theres non.


Anyway if some members of the army sees the war as a religious war, "Dan Maiwa Daura" has the right to pay chinese soldiers or who ever to whooop boko haram.www.nairaland.com/attachments/2235938_danmaiwa_jpeg4c1e1f8bc2a919fa2f3b4a3f73c7fd36

like seriously?







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When you have Western(French) backed francophone countries protecting their border and kinda helps you in the war against insurgents in your country, of course they're gonna lie and make u look like shït then try to take your glory.

Hmmm

GEJ is working,sai GEJ

Giant of Africa Shame.....
Make that under developed chad dey say Nigerian army dey fear.... big slap

the worst part is Nigeria has one of the strongest army in African......

I begin to suspect that corruption is now being transferred from politics into the Nigerian Army..,..

I think we need all those corrupt leaders death!

Say wha?? Sometimes all I wonder is how we got to this place. You here stories of the 60's and you wonder how on earth did we arrive here?
And some people will say we should not 'go back' to such good times

Since ours are busy getting Mutiny charges and being underpaid.

oh lawd If such amount falls tu foreign soldiers, Ours nko??

Nigerian mass media are doing more harms to the country than book haram.... what is the essences of this findings by punch, trying to cause more trouble.

.. As far as their effort is yielding result, no problem... They worth each penny paid to them.
... Nothing good comes cheap.

Cost of security is high.

Sudden victory from Jonathan......He couldn't capture Boko Haram for 6 years but he's doing it in 6 week...oloshi

Nursecaleb:
GEJ is working,sai GEJ

like seriously??

Whatever, if they like let them pay 1 trillion to them...

I care less, so long as those bastards are wiped out.

Look at the stomach of our top military brass..that money has been in their stomach while bokoharam held sway..let them pay whatever to get the job done...

#chaiiii
well nothing is free in africa,boys must chop naaa...

anybody against the re-election of president Good luck Jonathan, we would open the gate of hell for them

in Jesus Christ our God we stand.

Nigerian troops need to be paid more than other soldiers in the coalition force since we are single handedly paying and bearing the financial burdens of the war. Nigeria always playing big brother without getting much in return.