The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar, has said the members of the Boko Haram Islamic Sect have been surrendering to the military in large numbers.
Abubakar said intelligence at the disposal of the military authorities revealed that so many of the Boko Haram members were trapped and were willing to stop the fight against the country.
Abubakar made the comment while speaking with journalists on the 52 Anniversary of the Nigerian Air Force scheduled to take place in Bauchi, in Abuja on Friday.
He said that the military authorities decided to create ‘Operation Safe Corridor’ to deal with the intelligence that there was division among the insurgents and to deal with cases of those willing to stop the carnage against innocents Nigerians and the country.
The Air Chief said that the military had made very high level of progress in the ongoing campaign against the insurgency.
He said that the fight against the insurgency would soon be brought to en end with the progress made by the military against the insurgents.
Abubakar said that the military had been able to stop the worrisome situation in 2014 when the members of the Boko Haram Sect would move in long convoys to carry out heinous acts against innocent citizens.
He said, “I am confident that we are at the tail end of the fight against the insurgency in the North East. Very soon the fight will soon come to an end.
“Looking at where we are coming from, we have done substantially well. With the support of the government and Nigerians, the situation is different from what was happening in 2014 when convoys of vehicles were moving from one place to the other killing innocent Nigerians.
“From intelligence, so many of those guys want to stop fighting, there are people among them who are trapped; there is intelligence that there is a division among the guys fighting.
“What we want to do is that if you want to stop fighting, if you want to stop the killing, you come out, we profile you, so many of them are surrendering. If you surrender, you are not armed, you are not carrying explosives, then the law will take its course. So Many people in very large numbers are surrendering. It is not too early to do so…
“So, we came up with the idea of ‘safe corridor’. If you want to come out, come out and then we profile you, keep you under watch before taking the next step. So many of them are surrendering in large numbers. We have seen that they are surrendering because they know that there is no escape.”
On the issue of the recent video purportedly released by the leader of the Boko Haram Sect, Abubakar Shekau, the Air Chief said that the Defence was studying it.
He urged Nigerians to give the expected support to the security agencies in the fight against the Boko Haram saying that intelligence was crucial in the ongoing counter insurgency operation.
On the activities of the Air Force under his leadership, Abubakar said that the service had trained 483 personnel in various foreign training centres of the world and another 366 locally in the last eight months. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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DeleteOnly PDP bigots will not agree that their the military are making progress.
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