Governor of Borno State, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, has disclosed that Boko Haram controls 2 Local Government Areas in Borno State.

Alhaji Kashim Shettima revealed this while receiving the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Babachir David Lawan, who led a six-man delegation on a condolence Visit to the Borno State Government.

The governor also dismissed insinuation that the attacks were acts of authority of the insurgents. He said it was only a strategy by the insurgents to attract attention, having almost lost the battle.

“They are presently controlling two local governments in Borno State; Abadam and Mobbar and partially in Marte,” he disclosed.

The governor insisted that the bombings that were witnessed in recent times were only to show to the world that the terrorists were still around and have no relevance to their prowess.

He said: “At some point, Boko Haram overran 20 out of our 27 local government areas in Borno State. They overran four local government areas in Adamawa and two in Yobe.”

He disclosed that to forestall further attacks in mosques, he had summoned all Imams of mosques in Maiduguri, Jere and surrounding areas as well as district heads, village heads and those manning streets called lawans and Bulamas, for a security meeting which will be led by the Shehu of Borno, Abubakar Ibn Umar Garbai Elkanemi.

The governor said the meeting scheduled for today would discuss firm measures that might require policy pronouncements required to address the renewed attacks.

The SGF whiled commiserating with the Governor and the people of Borno said, “the president on hearing what befell Adamawa and Borno states and the country yesterday (Friday) decided to set up this team to come and commiserate with you.

“The president is always compassionate and emotional when things like these happen to the people of Borno state, Nigeria is indeed very sad that these things continue to reoccur so often.”

He said, “defeating insurgency on the battle ground is different from defeating it from the urban areas.

“And knowing that their days are numbered it is clear that they have changed their styles and strategies and have now resorted to bomb blast even in religious areas, no one would have expected that one would have woken up to explode himself in a mosque, killing Muslims and maiming innocent worshippers in mosque.”

Lawan said: “The president has said we should highlight that security is everybody’s business, because some of these people live among us and the only way we can eliminate this menace is by being vigilant and observant. We should monitor the activities of people that seem strange and people that look strange and people that are strangers in our midst.

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HungerBAD:
Sad.

I am assuming he wanted to say controlled, which would mean a past tense.

I know the Nigeria Army, is busy clearing the North up now. The other Boko Boys, I read somewhere are hiding in Cameroun.

chukwudi44:


Bros he said controls which is in present tense!!! The Daura President is loosing it!! By May 29 GEJ handed back to him all the local governmnet areas in the country but the dullard has succeeded in losing two of them including over 2000 lives to boko haram!!

Comming from a president with a military background,this is rather disapointing.

HungerBAD:


Devil always waiting for bad news.

Ekwensu.

chukwudi44:


Olodo if your dullard of a president was doing his job,there wont be news like this and hence no need for me to be commenting on such threads.

chukwudi44:


Olodo if your dullard of a president was doing his job,there wont be news like this and hence no need for me to be commenting on such threads.

HungerBAD:


Lol.

I think the Governor misspoke.

dustmalik:
Thebreakingtimes is a known PDP propaganda media outlet. Mods, don't move it to front-page until this can be verified by a reliable source.

chukwudi44:


Bros he said controls which is in present tense!!! The Daura President is loosing it!! By May 29 GEJ handed back to him all the local governmnet areas in the country but the dullard has succeeded in losing two of them including over 2000 lives to boko haram!!

Comming from a president with a military background,this is rather disapointing.

kingsolex:


brainless drunkard if ur clueless president did not treat the bokoharam ish with kids gloves for campaign purposes we would not have been here today.

chukwudi44:


But once it is shakara reporters ,it becomes credible and can be pushed to the frontpage baa!! Hypocrite!!

dustmalik:

Whether you like it or not, agree or not, SR has a sterling history of credibility.
As for being a hypocrite, every reasonable person on this site would agree that you are the most hypocritical being on here.

EdCure:
The credibility of the source is questionable, though. The Wailers' most recent propaganda machine.
But my honest opinion is that Buhari will do far better as defence minister than being minister of petroleum. Winning the war in the NE is much crucial than personally supervising the activities of the oil sector.
TBH, the president need to fight the greed in him.