Boko Haram: Buhari Has Fulfilled His Promise – Buratai

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President Muhammadu Buhari has kept his promise to crush Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West Africa Province, or ISWAP, terrorists, according to the former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (retired).

But Buratai cautioned against assuming that defeating the Boko Haram militants would result in an end to all hostilities. He asserted that only when the terrorist organizations consent to give up their ideology, accept democracy, uphold the national constitution, and pursue peace would this occur.

This was said by the former COAS in an interview with journalists in Abuja.

He said that the President has established methods to contain the terrorists and bring peace to the North East and Nigeria in general from the time of his inauguration.

Buratai recalled that President Buhari in his inaugural address on May 29, said that the military command centre will be relocated to Maiduguri and remain until Boko Haram has been completely subdued.

“I say this with every sense of responsibility that the Buhari administration has subdued the Boko Haram insurgency and terrorism,” said Buratai.

According to him, the president came fully prepared with all the right information about the root causes of the insurgency and terrorism.

Buratai said that the Boko Haram insurgency was allowed to manifest before 2015 by official bungling, negligence, complacency and collusion.

This, he added, made Boko Haram become a terrifying force, taking tens of thousands of lives and capturing several towns and villages, covering swathes of Nigerian sovereign territory.

“This is the true summary of the Boko Haram armed insurrection. The murder of Muhammad Yusuf by the police was clearly extrajudicial. Negligence, complacency and collusion with the proponents and strategic leaders of the Boko Haram insurgency for selfish reasons caused the insurgency to degenerate into a full-blown nightmare,” he added.

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