NIGERIA’S military has sacked the commander leading the fight against militant Islamist group Boko Haram.
His redeployment to an unspecified post follows a string of attacks by the insurgents, including the killing of at least 50 people in a mosque last month.

No official reason was given for Maj Gen Ibrahim Attahiru’s removal.

Army chief Gen Tukur Buratai gave him a deadline in July to deliver Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau dead or alive within 40 days.

At least 20,000 people have been killed and thousands more abducted since Boko Haram launched its insurgency in north-eastern Nigeria in 2009.

President Muhammadu Buhari took office in May 2015 with a pledge to beat back the militants.

About seven months later, he declared that Boko Haram had been “technically defeated” after the army recaptured most territory that had fallen to it.

However, Boko Haram has continued carrying out bomb and gun attacks in the north-east.

In July, more than 40 people died during a military operation to free people who had been ambushed in a convoy by the militants.

The dead included soldiers and an oil exploration team.

Maj Gen Attahiru Ibrahim was appointed to lead the offensive against Boko Haram in the north-east in May this year.







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"An attack on BH is an attack on the north"- So said PMB
No even Attahiru a core northerner can't rein in their own self created attack dogs.Well the core north have to stew in it own juice.

They should stop deceiving us and tell us who are Boko haram sponsors....let ordinary Nigerians deal with this people themselves

The hunter later become the hunted.

The demon the Dullard of Aso rock and his islamists kinsmen created to destabilize the country is now hunting them.

Buhari is incompetent. He has failed in even the two basic reasons he was (s)elected: to fight corruption and Boko Haram. An honorable man would have resigned on his own accord a long time ago.

ONE OF THE FIRST COMMANDS, BUHARI GAVE WAS FOR SERVICE CHIEFS TO RELOCATE TO BORNO AND LEAD THE WAR. IS BURATAI NOT SUPOOSED TO BE THE COMMANDER OF THE WAR? WHICH ONE IS ATTAHIRU AGAIN