Chadian president, Idriss Deby has called for the urgent creation of a regional force to tackle the fundamentalist sect , Boko Haram that is raging violent insurgency in Nigeria.

Noting that the group operates mainly in northern Nigeria, President Deby claims it poses a great danger to neighboring countries around the Lake Chad basin.

“Our basin is exposed to insecurity because of the permanent threat posed by Boko Haram,” he said.

“I am demanding the creation of a joint deterrence force. We have to make this decision here today,” President Deby told a meeting of the Lake Chad Basin Commission, which includes Chad, Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria and the Central African Republic.

“If we don’t eradicate them, we won’t be capable of saving our Lake Chad,” he said.

A suicide attack on Monday on a police station in Taraba state, which borders Cameroon, killed at least 11 people. An attack yet to be claimed by any group but mirrors similar attacks carried out by the dreaded Islamist group.

Boko Haram has targeted government institutions, churches and bars as well as mosques belonging to rival Muslim groups across northern Nigeria over the last 20 months, including military formations out of the attacks.

It also attacked the UN headquarters and the Nigeria Police headquarters in Abuja last year.

Some experts have warned that the group is building links with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb which has mainly been active in the Sahara – across Niger, Mali and Algeria.