{"id":18351,"date":"2019-05-30T12:01:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T12:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=18351"},"modified":"2019-05-30T12:01:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T12:01:27","slug":"boko-haram-getting-food-and-drug-supplies-from-ngos-says-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=18351","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram getting food and drug supplies from NGOs, says Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Johnson Eyiangho (<strong>NAN)<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Nigerian Army has again accused some Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), operating in the North East of breaching security and sabotaging ongoing counter terrorism operations in the zone.<br \/>\nArmy Spokesman, Col. Sagir Musa, on Thursday said the military established this after the arrest of a Boko Haram commander, Mohammed Modu on Sunday.<br \/>\nThe army had in 2018 leveled similar accusation against NGOs operating in the region.<br \/>\nMusa alleged that the high profile commander belong to the Abubakar Shekau\u2019s faction of the terrorist group.<br \/>\nThe army spokesman said that preliminary investigations revealed that the Shekau\u2019s faction of Boko Haram had been receiving \u201chumanitarian support of food and drugs supplies from some NGOs operating in the North East.\u2019\u2019<br \/>\nMusa described the NGOs\u2019 actions \u2013 providing logistics support to terrorists, as \u201cserious security breaches.\u2019\u2019<br \/>\nHe, therefore, warned the affected NGOs to \u201cdesist from compromising Nigeria\u2019s national security and war efforts against terrorism.\u2019\u2019<br \/>\nMusa advised them to operate in accordance with the extant rules and regulations guiding the operations of humanitarian aid workers.<br \/>\nHe said they must also operation in line with the guidelines and procedures of International Humanitarian Laws, as well as the Laws of Armed Conflict.<br \/>\nHe further warned: \u201cThe Nigerian army will no longer tolerate such acts of sabotage inimical to the fight against terrorism by any organisation or agency, and will not hesitate to sanction any such recalcitrant organisation as appropriate.\u2019\u2019<br \/>\nNAN reports that in December 2018, the army suspended the operations of the United Nations International Children\u2019s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in the North-East theatre until further notice.<br \/>\nThe army alleged that UNICEF had shifted from \u201cits duty of catering to the wellbeing of children and the vulnerable through humanitarian activities and now engages in training selected persons for clandestine activities.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThe Theatre Command will not tolerate this kind of sabotage from any individual, group of persons or organisation.<br \/>\n\u201cWe call on all Non-Governmental Organisations and members of humanitarian agencies to keep to their legitimate norms in the discharge of their acclaimed humanitarian duties.\u201d<br \/>\nThe army later the army announced a reversal of the decision to suspend UNICEF from the North-East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Johnson Eyiangho (NAN) The Nigerian Army has again accused some Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), operating in the North East of breaching security and sabotaging ongoing counter terrorism operations in the zone. Army Spokesman, Col. Sagir Musa, on Thursday said the military established this after the arrest of a Boko Haram commander, Mohammed Modu on Sunday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}