The state of emergency is about four days old with military campaigns and raids in Boko Haram camps. Reports indicate that over 65 confirm insurgents have been arrested, many others are in custody undergoing interrogations to establish their culpability or otherwise. Also, arms and ammunitions have been allegedly recovered including cash purportedly stolen from banks. In Ur own opinion, has the SOE faired very well? Or is there something the STF should do or refrain from doing?
Let's keep it real pals

I doubt in my heart. Failure if u ask me. Datz all

65 insurgents captured? Choose for urself. Success all the way...

If they keep arresting without levelling their camps, its a failure.

This is really kind of silly - if it were that easy to crush BH it would be a crime for GEJ not to have done it sooner.
Serious military operations cannot be easily assessed for success or failure in a matter of days. The success or not would need to be assessed AFTER the operations have ended and we are BH free for several months to a year.

There are those whose only benefit from containing BH is a political badge - for those I say you might regret this bitterly when it blows up in your wicked faces.

Idokojimmy: The state of emergency is about four days old with military campaigns and raids in Boko Haram camps. Reports indicate that over 65 confirm insurgents have been arrested, many others are in custody undergoing interrogations to establish their culpability or otherwise. Also, arms and ammunitions have been allegedly recovered including cash purportedly stolen from banks. In Ur own opinion, has the SOE faired very well? Or is there something the STF should do or refrain from doing?
Let's keep it real pals

Succezz

People like this OP constitute the problem in Nigeria.

koruji: This is really kind of silly - if it were that easy to crush BH it would be a crime for GEJ not to have done it sooner.
Serious military operations cannot be easily assessed for success or failure in a matter of days. The success or not would need to be assessed AFTER the operations have ended and we are BH free for several months to a year.

There are those whose only benefit from containing BH is a political badge - for those I say you might regret this bitterly when it blows up in your wicked faces.

At the same time there are those who want the State of Emergency to fail because of the political badge others would wear if it succeeds, forgetting that the success of the SOE is the success of all peace loving people whether or not some people get a political badge out of it.

againstGEJ: People like this OP constitute the problem in Nigeria.

as the thread suggest, its just like an opinion pool sir, where u can express ur opinion about D ongoing operation. To a large extent, the operation has been successful, given absence of civilian casualties. That's my opinion. Secondly, I believe the military needs our support now more that ever before. Stakeholders in these areas must cooperate with the STF to rid our society of terrorism

The success of the JTF's campaign is still too early to assess. The only reports we hear about the operation are the ones released by the JTF's high command and they have told us they are in it for the long haul. When they declare the entire exercise a success and the smoke settles, we will then know for sure if BH has been dealt the much needed death blow.

With the reported success recorded from the campaigns so far, one can only begin to wonder why the FG let the BH scourge drag on for so long.

Idokojimmy: The state of emergency is about four days old with military campaigns and raids in Boko Haram camps. Reports indicate that over 65 confirm insurgents have been arrested, many others are in custody undergoing interrogations to establish their culpability or otherwise. Also, arms and ammunitions have been allegedly recovered including cash purportedly stolen from banks. In Ur own opinion, has the SOE faired very well? Or is there something the STF should do or refrain from doing?
Let's keep it real pals

What were the goals going into the deployment? The goals and their outlines should be assessed for success? The president's speech had no specifics, but i could be wrong.

Four days into it......we should be asking for progress status, not the result.

The objective of the SOE is to retake BH enclaves in the North. After this is done there will still be pockets of violence here and there on the long term. The fact that the recapturing of the enclaves if going smoothly means the SOE is a success!!!

Speak for yourself. GEJ disappointed me but that doesn't mean I wish my country to go the way of Afghanistan. Paying attention to useless praise-singers that tellignoble lies is what led GEJ into this morass in the first place. When u slaughter truth, you also slaughter success.

PapaBrowne:

At the same time there are those who want the State of Emergency to fail because of the political badge others would wear if it succeeds, forgetting that the success of the SOE is the success of all peace loving people whether or not some people get a political badge out of it.

Its rather too early for assessment, wait for a few months down the line.