Boko-Haram will end in matter of days, Buratai assures Nigerians 2

THE Chief Of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant- General Tukur Buratai, at the weekend assured that activities of the Boko Ha­ram insurgents would end in a matter of days.

Buratai, vowed to beat the three months deadline given by President Mu­hammadu Buhari, to the Nigerian Armed Forces to wipe out insurgence in the country and restore nor­malcy to affected areas.

Buratai, who gave the assurance when he led a team of soldiers to re­cover some strongholds of the insurgence in some villages in Borno State, said there was no going back on the presidential order as officers and men of the Nigerian Armed Forces were more than determined to end the in­surgency war and get on with other businesses of the military.

While the Army chief led the ground troop with heavy artillery, his coun­terpart, the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar, piloted a fight­er jet to give aerial support to the ground troop as they charged through villages and routed the terrorists from their strongholds along the Mafa, Gambo­rou Ngala and Dikwa, roads all in Borno State.

The Army chief led by the General Officer Com­manding, 7, Division, Ni­gerian Army, Maiduguri, Major-General Adeosun, principal staff officers from the Army Head­quarters, Abuja, and some journalists, however, came under attack from the terrorists, who laid an ambush for the convoy.

The army chief, who made the vow during an interview with journalists at Dikwa, shortly after addressing troops, who made further advance to rout the militants from their strongholds, said without mincing words that “I want to assure the good people of Nigeria that the days of Boko Ha­ram is over.

In just matter of days we are ending this non­sense and all those who had been displaced from their homes would return and continue with their normal activities.”