Specifically, in the two countries billed for visit, he is expected to have high level talks and agreement on how best to wipe out Boko Haram and make the region terrorists free.
It would be recalled that joint military operations involving Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Niger with operational base in Lake Chad Basin is on, but achieving maximum successes are being hampered by lack of cooperation and coordination.
The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Mallam Shehu Garba, said the two-day trip will focus on “matters of security”, with the cooperation of Nigeria’s neighbours seen as crucial to ending the Boko Haram terrorists activities which had claimed more than 15,000 lives since 2009.
President Buhari had during his inauguration last Friday, condemned Boko Haram and vowed to eliminate them. But Boko Haram had responded with attacks, hitting Maiduguri, Borno State capital, with rocket-propelled grenades overnight on Saturday. Also, it followed it up with a suicide attack at a mosque in the city, which is the Borno State capital, killing at least 26 people.
Further, on Sunday, the insurgents raided two towns in Borno’s neighbouring state of Yobe, torching public buildings and looting food and fuel stores.
Niger shares a border with both Borno and Yobe states, while Chad borders just Borno State in Nigeria’s extreme northeast.
Former president Goodluck Jonathan’s administration had long complained that Nigeria’s neighbours were not doing enough to contain Boko Haram as they fled military pursuit by crossing porous borders.
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