The attack also comes just days after Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari declared that the government has “technically” defeated the militants.
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Over the past few years, the Boko Haram Takfiri militants have killed about 20,000 people in Nigeria, and hundreds of others in neighboring Cameroon, Niger and Chad. “Indoctrinating young guys… they have now been reduced to that”, the Nigerian president said.
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Nigeria’s information minister today insisted that Boko Haram was “largely defeated” despite two days of bombings blamed on the terrorist group that left dozens dead in the volatile northeast.
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Buhari had earlier given military chiefs a December deadline to end the insurgency of Boko Haram.
Reacting to recent attacks on Jiddari Polo, and Adawari Village, near Maiduguri metropolis, Lai Mohammed said, “We have been vindicated because Bokom Haram have been decapitated compared to the past records”.
For Buhari, a continued Boko Haram insurgency is a potential threat to his credibility – and popularity – going into 2016.
The first blast on Monday took place at a mosque in a Maiduguri suburb where the army had exchanged fire on Sunday with suspected Boko Haram fighters who it said had tried to slip into the town to carry out suicide bombings.
Three young female suicide bombers detonated explosives – two of them together at a market in Madagali Monday morning, killing 30 people, a local official said, and one at a checkpoint in Maiduguri, where one person died.
Nigerien soldiers patrol in Bosso, near the Nigerian border; Boko Haram has expanded its network in …
“But articulated conventional attacks on centers of communication and populations… they are no longer capable of doing that effectively”, he added.
“Boko Haram is still extremely unsafe, and it’s gaining resources, notoriety, credibility and successfully expanding its reach”, St-Pierre said.
Over the last five years Boko Haram group has invaded several communities in north-eastern Nigeria.
He also said Nigeria is yet to fully win the fight against insurgency, despite the success recorded in some areas.
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Boko Haram has killed thousands in Africa, making it the world’s deadliest terror group, according to the Global Terroism Index.
