The Days Of Boko Haram Are Numbered - Gov Shettima

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State has declared that the days of Boko Haram are numbered as they no longer pose a threat to the territorial integrity of the country.

Shettima made the remark in Maiduguri while addressing the
Northeast humanitarian stakeholders meeting organised by the Federal Government.

According to Shettima, the meeting marked a significant step forward in the journey to forever chase insurgency out of the land and place the Northeast on the trajectory to sustainable development and peaceful coexistence.

In the address he read at the occasion, Gov Shettima said ;
“It is a well known fact that since the year 2009, our region has been caught in war that is imposed by unquestionable matters of health, a war of brutality that has no correlation in human history.

“A war that is characterised by wanton destruction of lives and properties, genocidal scale, fatal destruction of towns and territorial occupation by terrorists, mass abduction of innocent vulnerable boys and girls and even adults, displacing of millions of Nigerians into refugees in their own land.

“But it is equally a well known fact that in the last six months we have witnessed a new impetus in the counter insurgency effort so much so that a new hope of optimism is assured that the end of all this madness is finally in sight.

“Thanks to the ample political will demonstrated by President Muhammadu Buhari which has manifested in the creation of regional international anti-terrorist alliances as well as the remarkable improvement in the training and equipping of our armed forces.

“Our gallant and patriotic troops have become better motivated and have taken the war to the insurgents and have largely succeeded in degrading their capacity as a fighting force.

“These undesirable elements no longer constitute a potent threat to Nigeria's territorial integrity. Thus, despite the renewed but desperate and cowardly campaign of bomb detonations currently undertaken by the ungodly Boko Haram sect maiming and killing multiples of innocent people, we all know that their days are numbered."