Presidential aide,
Mallam Garba Shehu, has expressed confidence that the wave of Boko Haram
attacks could end before the three months given by President Muhammadu Buhari
to end the insurgency.
He
also said that hope was not yet lost on the efforts by Nigeria’s security
forces to secure the freedom of the Chibok school girls taken hostage by Boko
Haram more than a year ago.
Speaking
in an interview with journalists in Abuja yesterday, Shehu said the terrorists
were now in disarray, having lost their central command and had been broken
into splinters due to the efforts of the Nigerian troops under the new
leadership.
Responding to the criticism that the President Buhari-led administration had not done enough to stop the insurgency as promised during the election campaigns, Shehu said on the contrary, the administration had been working hard to cripple the terror organisation, adding that due to intensive military bombardments, Sambisa Forest, their stronghold, was now being degraded.
“From my conversation with these commanders, what they are saying to themselves is that they are not going to wait for three months, but do their best to beat the target given by the president.
-Thisdaylive
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