Lai Mohammed: Terrorist Attacks can't Stop Overnight
Lai Mohammed: Terrorist Attacks can't Stop
Overnight
…Admits boko haram operate in few local government areas
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed today said Nigerians should not expect book haram terrorists to stop attacks overnight, adding that attacks on vulnerable communities were not unusual.
Muhammed who addressed a press conference in Abuja insisted that the terrorist sect had been demoralized, and would never again be allowed to carry out coordinated attacks like a regular army.
According to Lai Mohammed, "It is important that we explain further to our compatriots that the recent spike in suicide bombings and attacks on vulnerable communities are not unusual at the phase of insurgency in which we are now, which is the phase in which the insurgency is defeated or degraded by the military. As we have said many times, insurgency is not your typical classic warfare, and the guns will not fall silent overnight."
The minister explained that the fact that insurgents operate from a few local government councils in the North-east, does not connote that they are in control of territories.
"Before now, Boko Haram used to come in convoy, and stroll into Maiduguri and Abuja with impunityL they used to carry out attacks on military formations and police stations. Before now, they set-up a Caliphate, hosted flags in areas where they were in control, but all that has been decimated, and they can no longer operate like an organised army," he noted.
The minister observed that the sect members now work in cells, which according to him makes it easy for them to detonate four to five explosives simultaneously.
According to him, suicide bombings and attacks on highly vulnerable communities in the North-east by Boko Haram was not unusual and unexpected.
…Admits boko haram operate in few local government areas
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed today said Nigerians should not expect book haram terrorists to stop attacks overnight, adding that attacks on vulnerable communities were not unusual.
Muhammed who addressed a press conference in Abuja insisted that the terrorist sect had been demoralized, and would never again be allowed to carry out coordinated attacks like a regular army.
According to Lai Mohammed, "It is important that we explain further to our compatriots that the recent spike in suicide bombings and attacks on vulnerable communities are not unusual at the phase of insurgency in which we are now, which is the phase in which the insurgency is defeated or degraded by the military. As we have said many times, insurgency is not your typical classic warfare, and the guns will not fall silent overnight."
The minister explained that the fact that insurgents operate from a few local government councils in the North-east, does not connote that they are in control of territories.
"Before now, Boko Haram used to come in convoy, and stroll into Maiduguri and Abuja with impunityL they used to carry out attacks on military formations and police stations. Before now, they set-up a Caliphate, hosted flags in areas where they were in control, but all that has been decimated, and they can no longer operate like an organised army," he noted.
The minister observed that the sect members now work in cells, which according to him makes it easy for them to detonate four to five explosives simultaneously.
According to him, suicide bombings and attacks on highly vulnerable communities in the North-east by Boko Haram was not unusual and unexpected.
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