All plans to attack Boko Haram might not have been heard as about 2,000 Chadian troops crossed into Nigeria yesterday to fight the insurgents. For almost an hour, Chadian warplanes struck Boko Haram positions, AFP reported yesterday.
The report said after the airstrikes, armoured vehicles then rolled across the bridge linking Fotokol town in Cameroon with Gamboru in Nigeria, clearing the way for the infantry.
The entire Chadian contingent had crossed the frontier by mid-day without a shot being fired, an AFP correspondent said. Chad’s President Idriss Deby sent 2,500 soldiers to Cameroon in mid-January to help take on Boko Haram insurgents.
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