The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said yesterday
that the Nigerian military had met the December deadline to defeat the Boko Haram
terrorists, states a report in the Vanguard
The minister said this during his maiden meeting with editorial heads of media houses
in Lagos.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that President Muhammadu Buhari had,
upon assuming office, issued a December 31 deadline to the military to defeat the
Boko Haram terrorists.
“Today, I can report that the war against Boko Haram is largely won.
“I can confidently say this because just recently, I led a group of 33 journalists from
both the local and international media to the hot bed of the insurgency, that is,
Maiduguri, Kondugua, Kaoure and Bama.
“Today, I can report to you that the entire 70 plus kilometres stretch from Maiduguri to
Bama and all the way to Banki which leads to Cameroun and the Central African
Republic are in the hands of our gallant troops.”
He said the military presence could be felt ‘’every few metres along the road; at a point
along that road we were just a kilometre to Sambisa forest.
“They have so degraded the capacity of Boko Haram that the terrorists can no longer
hold on to any territory just as they can no longer carry out any spectacular attack.”
Mohammed, however, said that though there were still cases of suicide bombings, it
was pertinent to note that such was the nature if insurgency globally.
“Unlike a war between two armies, an insurgency never ends with arms victory
“Even in countries like Colombia where insurgency was supposed to have ended
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