President
Muhammadu Buhari said on Sunday that Boko Haram’s wicked methods of using
innocent children for suicide bomb attacks on soft targets are “the last kicks
of a dying horse’’.
The president said this at the commissioning of
the Pulaaku Radio Station in Yola, Adamawa.
Mr. Buhari, who was represented by the Minister
of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, reiterated that Boko Haram had been
degraded.
“Let me be clear, Boko Haram has been massively
degraded and its surviving members put on the run.
“Instead of being hunters, they are now the
hunted.
“In their desperation to stay relevant, they
have resorted to the wicked and dastardly act of using innocent under-aged
children to carry out suicide bomb attacks.
“What we are witnessing now are the last kicks
of a dying horse.
“A dying horse manages to engage in some kicks.
These kicks may be dangerous, but they don’t last long.
“Progressively, they become weaker and weaker
until the horse finally gives up.’’
Mr.
Buhari said that the war had moved to the next phase, which would be
intelligence-driven.
In carrying out the second phase of the war,
the president said he had approved the establishment of an intelligence fusion
centre in Maiduguri.
He said the centre which would gather and share
intelligence among security agencies in the country would go a long way in
ending the campaign of suicide bombing.
According to him, the commissioning of the
radio station is, therefore, timely at the time it is needed to leverage
information and communication to rev up the intelligence-driven phase of the
war against terror.
The president called on the media, especially
radio and television, to continue to play their part by offering their
platforms to communicate useful information to the populace.
He said the government would also build on the
nationwide campaign inaugurated in 2016, with the payoff line: “If you see
something, say something’’.
“It simply means that we need everyone to be
involved in getting the necessary information to tackle the terrorists.
“They are not ghosts, and some of them live
among us.
“We must all, therefore, support our gallant
troops, many of whom have made the supreme sacrifice in this war, by providing
information that can help rid our communities of terrorists,’’ he said.
The president seized the opportunity of the
event to again, condole with the government and people of Adamawa over recent
cowardly and inhuman attacks by the terrorists in the state.
- NAN
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