Former Petroleum Minister, Tam David-West, asked Chief of Defence Staff, Air Vice Marshal, Alex Badeh, to show more action than talk in the war against Boko Haram.
Badeh announced last week that the military had located where the jihadist are holding the girls.
Tam David-West
David-West knocked him for it, saying he was “disappointed as a bloody civilian” to read that he announced that the army had discovered the location “because it does not make any security sense to announce it to the world.”
He expressed concern that Boko Haram may relocate or scatter them into different groups.
“I read in the papers today (May 30) that even President Goodluck Jonathan is annoyed with him. We are not interested in words, but action. We are not interested in public relations.
“What he was trying to do was to give Nigerians the impression that Nigerian military located the girls before the Americans came. It does not make any security sense.
“If you read the papers, you will hear ‘task force has killed 200 Boko Haram members.’ It does not make sense. Any time such announcements are made, Boko Haram strikes again to be defiant.
“We don’t want talk. All we want to see is that the girls have been rescued.”
