The Minister of
Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has indirectly challenged Ekiti
State Governor, Mr. Ayo Fayose, to visit the north-eastern parts of Nigeria
where the war on terror is ongoing.
Mohammed,
who spoke in an interactive session with journalists on Wednesday, in Ikeja,
insisted that the war against terror had been largely won by the country’s
troops.He insisted that the Boko Haram sect had been reduced to a “fleeing,
bomb-throwing, cowardly and disorganised army’’.
A few days
ago, the Ekiti State governor had challenged Mohammed, whom he told to visit
the Sambisa Forest, which is regarded as a stronghold of the sect.
Fayose had
said, “Nigerians will only take the minister serious if he relocates to either
Sambisa in Borno State or to Yobe State and stay there till the end of March,
next year, without heavy military security.”
But the
minister said, “The armchair critics, who dispute these facts from the comfort
of their living rooms, are free to take a trip to the theatre of war to see
things for themselves. Perhaps then, they will be more circumspect in issuing
reckless statements that give nothing but succour to Boko Haram.
“I have gone
to the theatre of war to see things for myself. I did not just stop in
Maiduguri; I went all the way to Konduga, Kaure and Bama which, as I said, was
once the headquarters of the Boko Haram caliphate.”
Mohammed
dismissed the insinuation that Nigerian troops fighting the terror war were not
being well taken care of, saying that the Federal Government was taking
adequate care of the soldiers.
“President
Muhammadu Buhari has seen to the welfare of our gallant troops fighting the war
against terror. This is why the morale among our troops has been high,” the minister
said.
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