BEVERLY HILLS, December 06, (THEWILL) – President Muhammadu Buhari has told terrorists that “you can’t kill people and say Allahu Akbar” insisting that the end of Boko Haram terrorists was in sight.
The President gave the assurance in Dakar, Senegal, at the meeting of a Panel of Heads of States at the 3rd Dakar International Forum on Peace and Security in Africa.
In a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, the President told the international community that the security situation in Nigeria had improved significantly and noted with delight the increased cooperation between Nigeria and its neighbours in the fight against terrorism.
“About a month ago, I spoke with the President of Chad and I was pleased that a number of Chadians and Nigerians that were Boko Haram members are surrendering to him en-masse,” he said.
“The good news I have is that the end of the raining season has come in the North-Eastern region of Nigeria.
“Members of the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) are in their respective positions and at an agreed time they will move simultaneously and spontaneously for us to see the end of Boko Haram.
“We are now operating in the Sambisa Forest and as far as Boko Haram is concerned in the Lake Chad Basin area, I think they are done for.
“Boko Haram is no longer holding any territory or Local Government Area (LGA) in Nigeria. Those who live in the North East know that Boko Haram is no longer holding a single territory in the 774 LGAs in Nigeria.
“But they have a system of using IEDs and they indoctrinate mostly teenage girls and send them to soft targets, to churches, mosques and market places. That too is becoming very rear.
“I think Boko Haram shot themselves in the foot when they gave their ideology a religious connotation by killing children in their schools, people in the mosque and churches and shouting Allahu Akbar.
“You can’t kill people and say Allahu Akbar. You either do not know what you are saying or you don’t believe it.
Story by Oputah David
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