The Boko Haram insurgents can no longer
confront Nigerian soldiers in a battle in any
part of the country, a senior army official has
said.
Nasir Muazu, a Major General, stated this in
Akure on Saturday at the closing ceremony of
the Nigeria Army Inter Brigade Competition.
“I just came back from the North East and I
can comfortably tell you that Boko Haram
cannot and I repeat cannot take any offensive
attack against Nigerian Forces, that one is for
sure,” the General Officer Commanding 2
Mechanized Division of the Nigerian Army
said.
Mr. Muazu said the insurgents, who last year
displaced soldiers from several military
formations in the North East as they seized
several territory, had changed tactics to
aiming at soft targets.
“What the Boko Haram insurgents are now
doing is hitting sub-targets which indicates
that their days are numbered,” he said.
He assured that the country’s armed forces
are capable of bringing an end to the Boko
Haram insurgency and that the military had
reviewed and renewed its strategy to curb the
activities of the terrorists.
Although, the Army General agreed that part
of the major challenges confronting the
country is the coordinated activities of the
Boko Haram, he promised it would soon be
brought to an end.
Mr. Muazu also said that all military
commands had been placed on red alert in
order to fight issues bordering on insecurity.
“We are looking forward to an Army that is
responsive to the society, that would respond
to the demand and needs of our people,” he
said.
“I want to remind all Nigerians that this
preparation of explosives by the insurgents is
not carried out in the open, it is carried out in
houses and hidden places. So every Nigerian
must key into how we can win the battle
against insurgency in the North East. I think
with that support, we are going to make it.”
He assured that the Nigerian Army would
continue to work for the sustenance of peace
and not deviate from its professional roles of
defending the territorial integrity of Nigeria.
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