Nigerian minister says Boko Haram 'largely defeated'
Nigeria says the days of the Takfiri Boko Haram militant group are numbered despite numerous assaults by the terrorists over the past two days in the country’s volatile northeast.
“Boko Haram has been largely defeated. They (Boko Haram) know they are on their way out,” Nigerian Information Minister Lai Mohammed said Tuesday in Lagos, the country’s largest city.
“They lack the capacity to launch horrendous attacks they used to do in the past. We have succeeded in dislodging them,” the minister stated.
Mohammed said the recent terrorist attacks were not to be compared with the “near war-like” situation the country went through last year.
He said the Nigerian army has “decapitated” the Boko Haram body.
Mohammed said the government’s main concern now was to “resettle the internally displaced people.”
Earlier, President Muhammadu Buhari had given the army until December 31 to eradicate Boko Haram.
Last week, President Buhari said the armed forces had “technically won the war” against Boko Haram.
He said the group would not be able to launch “conventional attacks” against security forces or population centers.
In an obvious challenge to Buhari’s comments, Boko Haram terrorists launched a wave of attacks in the northeast of the country, killing dozens of people and injuring scores more.
Over the past few years, the Boko Haram Takfiri militants have killed about 20,000 people in Nigeria, and hundreds of others in neighboring Cameroon, Niger and Chad.
The militants are affiliated to the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.
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