Boko Haram: Military degraded Boko Haram’s capacity to launch attacks

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mo­hammed, as disclose that the military has sufficiently degraded the capacity of Boko Haram to launch attacks while also retaking most of the territo­ries seized by the terrorists. ‘’Winning the war against insurgency is about suffi­ciently degrading the insur­gents’ capacity for action, this, the military has sub­stantially done. The rest are mop-up actions,’’ He said at a press confer­ence in Abuja on Tuesday, following his recent trip to Borno State to visit the ar­eas liberated by the military.

He said;

‘’The military has largely met the deadline issued by President Muhammadu Bu­hari and would have done so totally by December. The question, therefore, is no longer whether the military will be able to meet the De­cember deadline, it is about how to give the military all the support it requires to continue to keep our coun­try safe from activities of the terrorists,’’ 

Mohammed, however, explained that, decimated and put on the run, the rump of the insurgents has now resorted to attacking soft targets: motor parks, enter­tainment centres, houses of worship, etc. 

‘’Make no mistake about it; this will not stop overnight. It will gradually taper off. That is the way it happens any­where such a war has been fought.” Meanwhile, Gov­ernor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State has dis­closed that government is working towards establish­ing a data bank on move­ment of cattle from the North to the southern part of the country.