MAIDUGURI,
Nigeria: Wives and children of security men has protested against the
deployment of their husbands and loved ones to fight Boko Haram, saying they
are not well able with the weapons available.
The protesters who came out in their numbers in Maiduguri,
Borno State lamented the killing of their loved ones by Boko Haram, claiming
they were ill-equipped to fight the insurgency.
According Rahina Ali, wife of a military officer: “Our
husbands are always given inferior weapons while the Boko Haram have superior
weapons.”
They called on the government to properly equip the security
men for them to end the insurgency which has claimed thousands of innocent lives since it began in 2009.
