The Nigerian Army has degraded Boko Haram, the Nigerian terror group, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, insisted at the weekend, explaining that the recent sporadic attacks on military locations in the North-east of the country were the handiwork of international terror, isolating Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) as the culprit. He spoke at an interactive session with media editors in Maiduguri and said the military had successfully concluded the physical and conventional war against Boko Haram, having expelled it from the Nigerian soil. He explained that what subsisted was the psychological phase of the fight against terror, saying the terrorists sought to intimidate the Nigerian military through propaganda that could demoralise the troops and discourage them from effectively concluding the ongoing mop up of remnants of the insurgents. He said and I quote “The real situation on the ground is that in terms of the conventional war against insurgency, Boko Haram has been degraded,” “What we are dealing with now is international terror led by Islamic State West Africa Province.”He Appealed to the media not to yield their platform to the terrorists.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 24, 2018 07:30 UTC