Chadian President Idriss Deby
on Wednesday vowed to
“wipe out” Boko Haram and
called on the group’s chief
Abubakar Shekau to give
himself up, warning that he
knew where the militant
leader was hiding.
“It is in Abubakar Shekau’s
interest to surrender, we
know where he is. If he
refuses to give himself up, he
will suffer the same fate as
his comrades,” Deby said at a
press conference with his
visiting Niger counterpart.
Deby said Shekau had fled
the strategic northeast
Nigerian town of Dikwa after
Boko Haram fighters were
chased out of the town by
Chadian troops in fierce
clashes last month.
The Chadian army at the time
said two of its soldiers and
117 Boko Haram Islamists
were killed in the fighting
around Dikwa in Nigeria’s
Borno state on February 17.
“We are going to win the war
and we are going to wipe out
Boko Haram, contrary to what
certain media think. The
Chadian and Niger forces will
continue their mission to
finally put an end to this
shadowy group,” Deby said.
Little is known of Shekau,
who has been declared a
global terrorist by the United
States and sanctioned by the
United Nations.
– Enigmatic figure –
Nigerian security officials
insist he is in fact a
composite character whose
role is taken by a rotating
cast of different militant
fighters.
According to security
services, the original
Abubakar Shekau was the
son of poor farmers who was
radicalised while attending
theological schools and took
over Boko Haram in 2010.
The Nigerian military said last
September that a man posing
as Shekau in videos posted
online had in fact been killed
after fighting with troops in
the far northeast.
The United States and other
experts, however, have
questioned the credibility of
that claim while Shekau has
outright rejected it in a video.
Nigeria and its neighbours
Chad, Niger and Cameroon
last month launched an
unprecedented joint
campaign against the Nigeria-
based Boko Haram group,
after the militants widened
their offensive with attacks in
the neighbouring countries.
Nigerian military spokesman,
Major General Chris
Olukolade on Wednesday also
pledged to snuff out Boko
Haram, which claims to be
fighting ot create an Islamic
state in Nigeria.
“Indeed there is no going
back or slowing down
anywhere,” he old a news
conference in the Nigerian
capital Abuja.
“The air campaigns are
continuing with a view to
dislodging all the identified
terrorist cells, enclaves or
hideouts anywhere in the
designated mission area,” the
spokesman said.
“The continuous aerial
bombardment of identified
terrorists’ cells and hideouts
by the Nigerian Air Force and
subsequent ground offensive
by the Nigerian troops
pursuing the dislodged
terrorists is proving
worthwhile.”
The Boko Haram conflict has
killed more than 13,000
people since 2009 and forced
more than one million to flee
their homes in northeast
Nigeria.
On Tuesday, the Nigerian
military claimed to have killed
more than 70 Boko Haram
fighters and repulsed their
bid to seize a key town in
Nigeria’s restive north.
Around 150 Boko Haram
fighters entered the fishing
town of Konduga on Monday
with a large herd of cattle
pretending to be herders and
opened fire on troops
stationed in the town, leading
to a six-hour gun battle.
Soldiers and vigilantes have
repelled more than a dozen
attacks by Boko Haram on
Konduga, which is some 35
kilometres (21 miles)
southeast of Maiduguri, the
capital of Borno state and the
birthplace of the Boko Haram
movement.
Konduga could serve as a
launching pad for attacks on
Maiduguri.
The Boko Haram unrest has
seen nearly 250,000 people
flee to neighbouring
countries, according to the
United Nations refugee
agency UNHCR.
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Nigeria Is Tom,
Chad Is Jerry.

if u know where he z,den wot r u waiting for?

coward shecow

magaliyu:
Nigeria Is Tom,
Chad Is Jerry.

So u ma dey reason alike too... #teamNeverAgain

As scripted, a Shekau will be arrested and made to make a confession against Buhari.....ALL rumored plans of these desperados all seem to come to fruition after weeks of the rumor, so who is fooling who??MUMU NIGERIANS!!!