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“Boko Haram Can No Longer Attack Towns” – Buhari Tells BBC “We Have Won The War”

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When he came to power earlier this year, President Muhammadu Buhari promised to wipe out by the end of 2015 the Islamist group Boko Haram which is accused of numerous human rights abuses.

It now looks like the deadline will not be met. So the BBC correspondent Abdullahi Kaura Abubakar met President Buhari and started by asking him if he had failed in the fight against the insurgents in northeastern Nigeria.

Here’s a transcript of what the President said,

“I assure you we havent failed, Adamawa State, Yobe State are free from Boko Haram” The President continued, “Borno which is their base, i think they have two to three local governments, Boko Haram has reverted to using Improvised Explosive Device, IED’s, inductrinating young girls from 15 years and below to go and explode it in Churches in Mosque, in market places, in motor parks, they have now been reduced to that.

“But articulated conventional attacks on centers of communication or and populations in towns and so on they are no longer capable of doing that effectively” he continued, “So i think technically we have won the war because people are going back into their neighbourhoods.

“We have our committee on ground liasing with local governments, our major problem now is rehabilitaion because over 1.5 million people are internally diplaced persons, repairing the infrastructures, the schools, the health centres, the number of bridges blown that’s what we are facing now.

“But Boko Haram as an organised fighting force, i assure you that we have dealt with them”….

 

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