Governor Kashim Shettima
said the military and other security operatives on the platform of ‘Operation
Lafiya Dole’ had been doing their best in the last six months as the
terrorists’ capacity had been whittled down leaving only pockets of them
remaining in the Sambisa Forest.
The Borno State, yesterday
dismissed media report credited to Senator Kaka Bashir Garbai that three local
government areas of Abadam, Mobbar and Kala Balge, were fully under the control
of Boko Haram insurgents, insisting that none of the councils in the state was
being occupied by the insurgents.
Recall that the Senator
representing Borno Central, Garbai, who visited Dalori, Alomari and other
villages surrounding Maiduguri attacked by insurgents who killed over 100
residents, had informed newsmen that: “The military are not doing their best to
end the war against terrorists, as only Maiduguri, Bayo and Kwaya Kusar council
areas were safe and free of insurgents, while 21 of the council areas are
partially controlled by terrorists with other three fully still under boko
haram caliphate.”
But Governor Shettima, who
just returned from a trip to Saudi Arabia where he led some other northern
governors for a meeting with officials of Islamic Development Bank and Saudi
authorities on rebuilding the north, particularly north east, said, as the
Chief Security Officer of the state, all the 27 local government areas had been
liberated by the military.
He said: “As Chief Security
Officer of Borno State, I am telling you authoritatively that our military
deserves commendation, because all my local government areas have been
liberated. Only few insurgents that remain in the Sambisa Forest desperate to
launch some pockets of attacks are what we are now witnessing as a result of
the bombardment that is going on in their hideouts. “Maybe, the statement
Senator Garbai gave to the media was done out of his emotions when he visited
the affected areas or he was misquoted. I have been trying to get contact with
the Senator on this unfortunate statement.”
The governor later drove
straight to Dalori and other surrounding villages that were destroyed by
insurgents last week where he condoled with the victims and prayed for quick
recovery of the injured. The governor told the people of the affected
communities that government had already liaised with the military to provide
them with adequate security and urged them not to flee as his administration
would spend N100 million to rebuild their destroyed houses. He immediately set
up a committee headed by his deputy, Usman Durkwa to ensure that all the houses
destroyed by the insurgents were rebuilt promptly.
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