Nigeria Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai has said that the remnants of Boko Haram insurgents have been pushed to the boarders of Nigeria with Niger Republic, Chad and Cameroon.
According to him, the pockets of those insurgents operating in the borders are being cleared by the Multi-National TaskForce.
Lt. Gen. Buratai who spoke to journalists in Damaturu after paying courtesy call on the Deputy Gov of Yobe State who stood in for Gov Ibrahim Gaidam said the Army is consolidating on the peace in the region by opening up strategic roads that were hitherto closed due to the Boko Haram activities, adding that they will continue to give confidence to the civil population in the region by chasing out the remaining insurgents in the fringes.
His words: “We are further consolidating the successes by opening roads to allow people move about freely without the fear of any attack. We will continue to do that. Yesterday I was in Maiduguri and a day before yesterday We have been able to open the DIKwa road up to Gamboru Ngala.
We will continue to do that. We must certify that all the routes are safe and to also get people to be more confident and we have to assure them of that. Otherwise virtually all parts of the Northeast can be moved in but people are still apprehensive but you can see that the Multi-National Joint TaskForce is operating in the northern part of Borno and southern parts of Niger Republic and parts of Chad. These is where you see must of the remnant of Boko Haram are concentrated now.
“But I must tell you that joint efforts are on the way to make sure that these terrorists are further pushed away from these areas. That is the clearance operation we are doing. I was in Kangarwa just a few meters to the boarders and that is where our troops have been operating and they would continue to advance to clear the remnants there. It’s a joint effort now where you see the Chadian, Nigerien, Cameroonians and our troops doing the clearance operations,” Lt. Gen. Buratai said.
Earlier at the courtesy call, the Army Chief praised the commitment and contribution of the Yobe State Government in the fight against the insurgency.
He announced that a large sum of money has been earmarked in the 2016 budget for the building of the Army Special Forces School in Buni Yadi and a logistics military hospital in Damaturu which he noted the choice of the location wasn’t by accident but for the strategic nature of Buni Yadi,Mahilyow thanking the state government for providing the land for the school and for a logistics military hospital in Damaturu?
Buni Yadi is one of the towns in Yobe State that was taken over by the Boko Haram insurgents before it was liberated by the military.
The deputy governor in his remarks said the greatest problem of the state at the moment is to resettle the displaced people as peace returns to the state.
He maintained that Yobe government will continue to solicit assistance from wherever possible for the reconstruction of the destroyed communities, schools, hospitals, and other government facilities which is put at over N30 billion. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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