Boko Haram informants in military by former Nigeria Defence boss

Alex Badeh, Fomer Nigerian chief of Defence Staff has alleged that some military officers leaked sensitive information to members of Boko Haram to sabotage operations against the terrorists.

 

 Alex Badeh said these unpatriotic members of the military made it extremely difficult to defeat the insurgents who have waged a six-year campaign to establish an Islamic enclave in the northeast.

Badeh said the sellout led to the needless deaths of numerous officers and men who unwittingly fell into ambushes prepared by terrorists who had advanced warning of troops advancement.

"The activities of fifth columnists in the military and other security agencies who leaked operational plans and other sensitive military information to the terrorists, combined to make the fight against the insurgents particularly difficult,” he said at a pull out ceremony marking a formal end to his career in the military.

Badeh also pointed out that when he assumed office as CDS, he headed an armed forces that lacked the relevant equipment and motivation to fight an enemy (Boko Haram terrorists) that was invisible and embedded with the local populace.

He said the decision of certain countries (which he did not name), to deny Nigeria weapons to prosecute the war against Boko Haram, added to the challenges the military faced.