Says hope not lost on Chibok girls
Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja
Presidential aide, Mallam Garba Shehu, has
expressed confidence that the wave of Boko Haram
attacks could end before the three months given by
President Muhammadu Buhari to end the
insurgency.
He also said that hope was not yet lost on the efforts
by Nigeria’s security forces to secure the freedom of
the Chibok school girls taken hostage by Boko Haram more than a year ago.
Speaking in an interview with journalists in Abuja
yesterday, Shehu said the terrorists were now in
disarray, having lost their central command and had
been broken into splinters due to the efforts of the
Nigerian troops under the new leadership.
Responding to the criticism that the President Buhari-led administration had not done enough to stop the insurgency as promised during the election
campaigns, Shehu said on the contrary, the
administration had been working hard to cripple the
terror organisation, adding that due to intensive
military bombardments, Sambisa Forest, their
stronghold, was now being degraded.
“From my conversation with these commanders,
what they are saying to themselves is that they are
not going to wait for three months, but do their best
to beat the target given by the president.
“So there is so much going on and I can assure you
that spirits are very high. The army chief was there
with the soldiers for about nine days. That is
leadership because you see him leading the soldiers
from the front.
“If the chief himself is there, who are you to drop
your gun? A lot is happening and Boko Haram has
been degraded, they have lost central command and
are now in splinters.
“What you have now is bits and pieces carrying out
distractive action because they don't want to go down alone. So they are looking for very soft targets such as churches, mosques and markets.
“The air force is clearing this place for the ground
troops to move in. They are looking for bomb making structures and moving convoys of these insurgents.
But they are being careful about certain locations
with the hope not to harm the Chibok girls in those
locations,” he said.
Shehu, who spoke on the expectation that the
administration will do something to free the Chibok
girls, said the troops were being careful about certain locations so as not to harm the Chibok girls taken hostage by the terrorist group.
He explained that the bombings were being carried
out in a careful manner to avoid certain locations of
interest as far as the Chibok girls were concerned.
According to the president's spokesman, Sambisa
Forest was under observation 24 hours day in the
event somebody decides to move the girls and if
there was any movement that is suspicious, there are drones that fly around the place at night and during the day.
“To be fair to President Buhari, did he ever say he will bring back the girls on the second day of his
administration? What he has always said is that we
don’t even know where the girls are and that we need to go in there and get the intelligence and the
situation of things and then act.
“Without meaning to endanger what is left of those
girls, you know that the Sambisa Forest is being
degraded right now.
“In the last few days, you even saw the Chief of Army
Staff leading the troops and I am aware that in the
last few weeks, very interesting pictures have been
shown to the president on the basis of which we will
say to Nigerians, don’t lose hope on the Chibok girls.
I am not saying they have been found or that they
have been seen. But it is not yet time for Nigerians to say we have lost them,” he added.
www.thisdaylive.com/articles/presidency-boko-haram-may-fall-before-deadline/219522/

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Let dem fall
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We hope and pray so



God bless Nigeria

Hmm

Mouth action.
After you will stop their cousin ISIS

Really, so their integration into the zoo army didn't take much time?

Ok nao