AGAIN! PRESIDENT BUHARI SAYS NO TERRITORY IS OCCUPIED BY BOKO HARAM

President Buhari Insists No Territory is Occupied by Boko Haram

President Mohammadu Buhari

Again, President Mohammadu Buhari has stated that no part of the Nigerian territory is under the control of Boko Haram insurgents.

This came as European Union announced a donation of $50 million for Nigeria and the countries within the Lake Chad Basin to fight terrorism.

The president reiterated his position yesterday when he welcomed the President of Germany, Mr. Joachim Gauck, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

He said: “It is a pity Boko Haram welcomed you with explosions in Borno that took so many lives, but I have attempted to explain in so many forums that Boko Haram is not what it used to be.

“While they were firmly holding 14 out of 774 local governments areas when we came in, they are not holding any local government for now.

“What they have resorted to is using improvised explosive devices to cause maximum casualties on soft targets as they did yesterday, doing what they are capable of doing now.

“But for them to organise conventional attacks on military, police installations and take hold of towns, I think they are not able to do that. They send groups to go and kill vulnerable targets.

“Having said that, our efforts have to be redoubled to make sure that the people in IDP camps are rehabilitated especially the children. More than 60 per cent of the two million people in IDP camps are women and children and more than 60 per cent of the children are orphaned.

“Some of them don’t know where they came from, they don’t know their parents. This is a pathetic situation the leadership of this government is facing because the least we should do is to quickly resettle those children, and if possible try and identify their neighbourhoods,” he said.

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