LAGOS, December 24, 2015- President Muhammadu Buhari said Nigeria has “technically” won the war against Boko Haram though suicide bombers remain a threat, in remarks issued days before his self-imposed deadline to defeat the jihadist group expires.
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“Today, I can report to you that the entire 70 plus kilometres stretch from Maiduguri to Bama and all the way to Banki which leads to Cameroon and the Central African Republic are in the hands of our gallant troops”. Cameroon is part of a regional task force set up to fight Boko Haram terrorists, who sometimes infiltrate Nigeria’s neighbors, including Cameroon, to carry out terrorist attacks there.
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“Boko Haram has reverted to using IEDs Improvised Explosive Device, indoctrinating young girls from 15 years and below to go and explode it in churches, mosques, market places, motorparks”.
But he told the BBC that the jihadists had been all but driven out from Adamawa and Yobe states, and their way of operating curtailed.
In his address during a meeting with newspaper editors yesterday, he said, “I can report to you that the war against Boko Haram is largely won”. “They have now been reduced to that”. People are going back.
When asked what he thinks about Nigerians criticizing him for always blaming the last government instead of focusing on how to make the country better, Buhari said, “I think they are being unfair”. It is located around the area where Boko Haram terrorists once held sway during the conquest of Gwoza.
The insurgency is said to have killed about 17,000 people and left more than two million people homeless.
“They can not now marshal forces and attack towns or attack military installations and so on as they did before…”
He said the military presence could be felt “every few metres along the road; at a point along that road we were just a kilometre to Sambisa forest”.
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He said the secret behind the recent success is the re-organisation and re-equipping of the military as well as training received from the British, the American and the French counterparts.
