President Paul Biya of Cameroon was believed to have regretted that former Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan bungle that fight against Boko Haram insurgents thereby prolonging the ability to conquer them.
He was said to have told President Muhammadu Buhari who visited him from Wednesday to Thursday that for President Jonathan, by his inaction, contributed to the festering of Boko Haram insurgency, adding that Jonathan did not do much in the war against insurgency.
While the immediate past president was accused of not forming a strong bond with leaders of neighbouring African countries who were also battling the same insurgency, he was also accused of not responding and returning phone calls meant to discuss ways of combining efforts to confront the terrorists.
President Biya was said to have made it clear that the major complaint was that Jonathan never or seldom, at best, picked his calls. He said most times he called Jonathan neither picked nor returned his calls. And as a result, the integration of efforts that should have stopped Boko Haram’s foray and unchallenged run was lacking.
Biya, who was quoted as warning, that a solo fight against the terrorist group could not have been effective, stressed: “this solo handling of the problem did not enable the neighbours put in much to solve the problem until it got this bad.” [myad]
