The Nigerian Army says it has obtained information about some Non-Governmental Organisations providing logistics support to the Boko Haram insurgents.
The army said it got the information from a high profile Boko Haram commander, Mohammed Modu (an Amir in the Abubakar Shekau’s faction), who was arrested by troops of 251Task Force Battalion Operation LAFIYA DOLE last Sunday.
The army had in 2018 leveled similar accusation against NGOs operating in the region.
Army said that preliminary investigations revealed that the Shekau’s faction of Boko Haram had been receiving “humanitarian support of food and drugs supplies from some NGOs operating in the North East.’’
It described the NGOs’ actions – providing logistics support to terrorists, as “serious security breaches.’’
In December 2018, the army suspended the operations of the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in the North-East theatre until further notice.
It alleged that UNICEF had shifted from “its duty of catering to the wellbeing of children and the vulnerable through humanitarian activities and now engages in training selected persons for clandestine activities.”
The army later announced a reversal of the decision to suspend UNICEF from the North-East.