{"id":32865,"date":"2014-07-18T12:25:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T12:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=32865"},"modified":"2014-07-18T12:30:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T12:30:45","slug":"nigerias-1bn-loan-to-fight-boko-haram-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/07\/nigerias-1bn-loan-to-fight-boko-haram-delayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s $1bn loan to fight Boko Haram delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\">Nigeria&#8217;s National Assembly has broken up for a two-month recess, meaning approval for a loan to help the military fight Boko Haram must wait.<\/p>\n<p>President Goodluck Jonathan submitted an urgent request to borrow $1bn (\u00a3580m) on the penultimate day of parliamentary business.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts say it would normally take several days for such a loan to be passed.<\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram&#8217;s campaign to establish an Islamic state has killed thousands.<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Martha Mark, the mother of kidnapped school girl Monica Mark, cries as she display her photo in the family house, in Chibok, Nigeria - May 2014\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/76348000\/jpg\/_76348580_022857466-1.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/><\/div>\n<div>The kidnapping of the girls from their school in Chibok has shocked many people around the world<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Jonathan has faced intense criticism over the government&#8217;s failure to curb the increasingly brutal insurgency waged by Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p>The group caused international outrage in April when it abducted more than 200 schoolgirls in its heartland of north-eastern Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria has a military budget of about $6bn a year but large sums are lost to corruption, critics say.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emergency law<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the letter to the Senate and House of Representatives on Wednesday, Mr Jonathan said there was an &#8220;urgent need&#8221; to upgrade the equipment, training and logistics of the armed forces and security services to help them confront the &#8220;serious threat&#8221; posed by Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For this reason, I seek the concurrence of the National Assembly for external borrowing of not more than $1bn,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Both chambers of parliament are not due to sit again until the end of their annual recess in September.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s Bashir Sa&#8217;ad Abdullahi in the capital, Abuja, says both the lower and upper houses of parliament would then scrutinise the loan request concurrently.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Children read from the Koran on 23 May 2014 in a classroom of the Future Prowess Islamic Foundation School in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/76324000\/jpg\/_76324681_023167179-1.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/><\/div>\n<div>Boko Haram is opposed to Western education<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Vigilantes youths pose for a photographs in Maiduguri, Nigeria - April 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/76349000\/jpg\/_76349743_018290309-1.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/><\/div>\n<div>Many villages rely on vigilantes to protect their communities from Boko Haram raids<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Each chamber would debate the request first &#8211; it would then pass to a committee and back to the chamber for approval.<\/p>\n<p>If the chambers differed, a joint committee would be formed to hammer out an agreement on the amount of the loan.<\/p>\n<p>It is not a quick process and could not have been done in a day, our reporter says.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria&#8217;s military is receiving help from the US, UK, China, France and Israel to secure the release of the schoolgirls.<\/p>\n<p>Rights groups have repeatedly accused the military of carrying out widespread abuses against civilians, as it tries to hunt down insurgents.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Jonathan sent more troops to the north-east last year after declaring a state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, the three states worst-affected by the insurgency.<\/p>\n<p>However, Boko Haram has stepped up attacks since then &#8211; and many villages rely on a force of vigilantes for protection.<\/p>\n<p>New York-based Human Rights Watch says more than 2,000 civilians have been killed in Nigeria this year by Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p>The deaths occurred in around 95 separate attacks in more than 70 towns and villages in the north-east, where Boko Haram launched its insurgency in 2009.<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"line\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/74982000\/jpg\/_74982323_line976.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"2\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Who are Boko Haram?<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A screen grab taken from a video released on You Tube in April 2012, apparently showing Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau (centre) sitting flanked by militants\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/75059000\/jpg\/_75059143_afp_bh.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Founded in 2002<\/li>\n<li>Initially focused on opposing Western education &#8211; Boko Haram means &#8220;Western education is forbidden&#8221; in the Hausa language<\/li>\n<li>Launched military operations in 2009 to create Islamic state<\/li>\n<li>Thousands killed, mostly in north-eastern Nigeria &#8211; also attacked police and UN headquarters in capital, Abuja<\/li>\n<li>Some three million people affected<\/li>\n<li>Declared terrorist group by US in 2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s National Assembly has broken up for a two-month recess, meaning approval for a loan to help the military fight Boko Haram must wait. 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