President Muhammadu Buhari has claimed that the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic had provided an avenue for terrorist group, Boko Haram
President Buhari, who is currently attending the African Finance Summit in the French capital, Paris, stated this in his opinion article, which was published in a Paris-based Magazine, Le Point.
“Around the Lake Chad Basin, Boko Haram terrorism have taken advantage of the pandemic and pushed back into my country Nigeria, whilst still launching raids and attacks in Chad, Cameroon and Niger. “It has demonstrated why pushing against one front can prove futile if groups can simply migrate to ponds of insecurity across porous borders.“Yet as instability has spread, so the networks that sustain it have strengthened – whether that be weapons supply chains from Libya, ideological imports of Al-Qaeda and ISIS from the Middle East, or trafficking networks that take money from those escaping instability and feeds it back into the system that generates it,” he said.
President Buhari stressed the need for stronger cooperation between Nigeria and France in the fight against terror.