{{Nigeria’s head of counter-terrorism on Friday accused neighbouring Cameroon of failing to make a serious effort to drive Boko Haram insurgents from its territory.}}
Sarkin-Yaki Bello, Coordinator-General Counter Terrorism Centre, said regional efforts against the Islamist insurgency had improved over the years but more needed to be done.
“Niger has been proactive and aggressive, Chad has shown zero tolerance for Boko Haram,” he told Reuters in an interview.
“Cameroon, we’ve engaged them to be more pro-active. They haven’t really. Not yet.”
Bello’s made his comments at a time of renewed international attention on Boko Haram following its kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls in northeast Nigeria last month.
The girls have still not been rescued despite a military operation involving foreign experts, and Nigeria’s security forces have been bruised by criticism, both internal and international, for their slow response to the hostage crisis.
Bello declined to comment on where the girls were or efforts to free them. But he said he feared a rescue could be lethal given the Islamist tactic of killing hostages during a such attempts.
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