The former president in an interview with The Punch said ending the Boko Haram insurgency in three months or in six months was not feasible, he however expressed confidence in the current administrations’s efforts to win the insurgency war.
He said: I’ve talked about that. You have to have an objective, otherwise, if you say go, and you don’t an objective… An objective is not cast in concrete. Look, I want you to finish a job in two days though you know it could take probably four or five days, but you must give an objective.
“I believe that what the President will get and which he knows he can get, is that he can get the upper hand; the military will get the upper hand over Boko Haram and of course, I think we are working towards that.
“But we will not get the end of Boko Haram in three months or in six months. And even when you get the upper hand militarily, you have to do what you have to do – the socio-economic aspect.
President Muhamadu Buhari some weeks ago gave the military a directive to wipe out Boko Haram terrorists come December ending.
The Chief Of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai said that the deadline given by the Federal Government to flush out Boko Haram was still achievable.
Ahead of the deadline by the president, the chief of army staff has continued a new 29 Task Force Brigade in Beneshiek, Borno state. The task force was strategically established to end insurgency.
In the same vein, the Nigerian army on Saturday, October 24, recorded huge success in its fight against the extremist sect as rep
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