“There’s a new collective zeal and determination on the part of the citizenry to ensure that Boko Haram is defeated, is degraded, that it will no longer have the capacity to cause mayhem and wanton destruction of lives and property by the end of the year”, Usman said.
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Deaths attributed to Boko Haram increased by 317 per cent in 2014 to 6,644. He told ATP that the internally displaced persons (IDPs) were at the security checkpoint when the bomber, who blended in with the IDPs, detonated her explosives. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) of Nigeria confirmed the casualty numbers, adding a suicide bomber was the cause of the explosion.
The routine searches and checkpoints now in place are believed to have prevented the recent attacks from killing even more people, police said.
Cameroon said on Monday that four teenage suicide bombers had killed themselves and a family of five when they were stopped by self-defence fighters in that Fotokol town, near the border with Nigeria.
The Nigerian Army has received report of some elements both within the Nigerian Army and outside, especially through the use of the social media circle to ridicule the Nigerian Army and the person of the Chief of Army Staff for reasons best known to them.
Boko Haram has waged an insurgency in Nigeria since 2009 in its bid to create a mini-state under Islamic law.
While Boko Haram and ISIS have largely attacked Christians and other religious groups, the number of religious figures and worshippers killed in terrorism attacks decreased by 11 percent in 2014, according to the GTI.
He said the army was committed to defeating the insurgency as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari and would therefore not tolerate any act of insubordination.
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Boko Haram has forced 2.6 million out of their homes and cities for the past six years.
