The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai described the seven-year fight against the Boko Haram terrorists as “quite sober and touchy”, saying that a number of officers and soldiers had lost their lives in the war. In his expression of gratitude for a job well done.
Buratai charged troops in the North East to pursue the fleeing Boko Haram terrorists and intercept them. “You must maintain the momentum of the operation. We must pursue the terrorists wherever they are. We must not allow them to regroup,” the army chief said.
One of the fleeing Boko Haram insurgents recently dislodged in Sambisa forest in Borno State was arrested on Saturday in Ikorodu area of Lagos State.
News 24 reports that the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai disclosed the arrest on Sunday at the re-opening of two major roads in the state that were closed since 2013 at the height of the activities of the insurgents. The roads are Maiduguri-Gubio-Damasak and Maiduguri-Monguno-Baga.
According to Maj.-Gen. Lucky Irabor, the Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, had earlier said that the North East had been secured. He also said that insurgency had brought untold hardship on the entire North East zone especially the people of Borno state.
On the success of the at the operation Lafia Dole, he explained that the reopened roads were closed for three years to check the incursion of the insurgents, adding that the reopening of such roads was an indication that the terrorists had been defeated.
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