Given the sustained military offensive in the North East against the insurgents, where their camps were destroyed and including their administrative headquarters of the phantom Islamic caliphate, not much has been heard from the Boko Haram leadership, Abubakar Shekau.
Shekau was used to making boasts on in videos, but it has been observed in the military circle that he was no longer in position for such boasting, even as his silence has raised questions about his being alive or dead.
However, speaking to our correspondent in Abuja, yesterday, the Director of Defence Information, DDI, Colonel Abubakar Rabe, said the military more than looking for Shekau was working towards making insurgency become a history.
He said, “it is not about whether somebody is dead or not. We are thinking about eliminating, anihilating and destroying the entire Boko Haram elements, not individual.
“We’ve been pounding their camps, they’re all in disarray. We’re on top of the situation and will not relent in our efforts.Our target is to completely wipe them off.”
Rabe, who said that Nigerians should not express so much fear because terrorists were attacking soft targets, said that this was a distraction and that the military was not losing focus on its resolve to wipe them off.
Source : National Mirror
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