According to Military sources, troops of the Nigeria army had begun to advance towards Alagarno, a notorious hideout and spiritual headquarters of Boko Haram located between Borno and Yobe states. He however said that more than 100 homes were burnt by the insurgents. Tukur Yusuf Buratai was confident that insurgency would be crushed by month end as directed by Buhari. “They burnt down more than 60 houses”. “Only five houses were spared the inferno”, said a resident who gave his name as David, after fleeing to the nearby town of Askira Uba. I was taken on our way to my village.
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The rest of the supplies were set on fire.
Some residents of Takulashi community who fled to Chibok said the insurgents were armed and fired into houses. “We thought the worst had happened after Boko Haram rustled over 200 cattle in the village on Friday”.
Cameroon said on Monday that schoolgirls Nigerian town of Chibok, kidnapped by Boko Haram a year ago were not among a group of 900 hostages liberated by the country’s army.
In Abuja, Mohammed conceded attacks on “soft” targets were more hard to prevent, as “there is nowhere in the world that you end this kind of thing overnight”.
He explained that, if exigencies of multiple military operation Against the insurgents across the country demand for modification of the deadline the federal government would not be hesitant to do so.
In the past year, Boko Haram has surpassed the number of fatalities claimed by the Islamic State, becoming the biggest terrorist threat in the world.
Guns, improvised explosive devices, ammunition and vehicles were seized, said army spokesman Colonel Sani Usman.
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Buratai emphasised that in response to this directive, “the Army has in conjunction with sister services and other security agencies taken the fight to the insurgents’ enclave and I issued the directive of clearance of the Sambisa forest within the stipulated deadline”. It said Cameroonians fighting “in synergy” with Nigerian soldiers carried out a “coordinated operation” on several border villages around Lake Chad Nov. 27 to Nov. 29.
