The Acting Director of Defense Information, Col Rabe Abubakar has said that military chiefs from the Lake Chad Basin Commission have concluded plans for the imminent deployment of the 8700 troops of the Multi-National Joint Task Force.
He said in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday that a meeting of military chiefs in N'djamena, Chad concluded the plans for the deployment. Present at the meeting were defense chiefs from Nigeria, Chad, Niger, Cameroun and Republic of Benin as well as the Commander of the Multi-National JTF and other high military ranking officers.
“The Chiefs of Defence Staff from the Lake Chad Basin Commission member- countries met in N’Djamena, the capital of Chad and finalised details of the deployment of a joint force to fight the Boko Haram which has sworn allegiance to ISIS and has killed hundreds of people through suicide bombings in the last three months, " the defense spokesman said.
He noted that the Chief of Defense Staff has been working hard to meet up with President Buhari's directive to completely eliminate Boko Haram within the next three months.
He also said that troops of the Multi-National JTF would be deployed to two command centres in Nigeria and Cameroun, even as soldiers on secondment to the task force have been directed to immediately report to their duty posts.
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