A senior official in the Nigerian military, Nasir Muazu, a Major General, has revealed that the terrorist group, Boko Haram, can no longer confront Nigerian soldiers in a battle and come out victorious in the North East region of the country.
Muazu made the statement on Saturday at the closing ceremony of the Nigeria Army Inter Brigade Competition in Akure, the Ondo state capital.
The Major General who is the General Officer Commanding 2 Mechanized Division of the Nigerian Army said, “I just came back from the North East and I can comfortably tell you that Boko Haram cannot and I repeat cannot take any offensive attack against Nigerian Forces, that one is for sure.”
Muazu acknowledged that the insurgents had changed tactics to aiming at soft targets. He said, “What the Boko Haram insurgents are now doing is hitting sub-targets which indicates that their days are numbered.”
He assured the gathering that the Nigerian soldiers are capable of bringing an end to the insurgency, while revealing that the military had reviewed and renewed its strategy in order to defeat the terrorists.
He also disclosed that all military commands had been placed on alert in order to fight headlong, the challenges of insecurity.
“We are looking forward to an Army that is responsive to the society, that would respond to the demand and needs of our people.
“I want to remind all Nigerians that this preparation of explosives by the insurgents is not carried out in the open, it is carried out in houses and hidden places. So every Nigerian must key into how we can win the battle against insurgency in the North East. I think with that support, we are going to make it,” he said.
According to Premium Times, Muazu said the Nigerian Army would continue to work hard to sustain the relative peace in Nigeria and not lose sight of its professional roles of defending the territorial integrity of the country.
Meanwhile, some Generals in the Nigerian Army Ordinance Corps in Lagos State, yesterday, were pulled out of service.
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