By Usman Abubakar Maiduguri
Governors Babagana Zulum of Nigeria’s Borno State and Bring.Gen Mahamadou Ibrahim Bagadoma of Niger Republic’s Diffa Region have held a closed-door meeting in Diffa, Wednesday, October 1 to review successes achieved on the cross-border terror war and re-strategize for lasting security around the Lake Chad shores.
Their discussions, according to Governor Zulum’s Chief media aide, Dauda Iliya, centered on joint patrols, intelligence sharing, and sustaining the recent gains that have pushed insurgents out of many of their former strongholds.
Zulum also outlined plans to leverage the improved security situation to facilitate the return of thousands of displaced farmers to the vast and fertile agricultural lands around Dutchi town within the Lake Chad basin.
Zulum led a high-level security and economic delegation, focused on strengthening the existing collaboration between Nigerian and Nigerien forces in the ongoing fight against insurgency, particularly around the shores of Lake Chad.
Diffa is a community 17 km from Damasak town in northern Borno where thousands of Nigerians displaced by Boko Haram insurgency are currently taking refuge.
