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We have reduced Boko Haram to wanderers, says ex- Army Commander

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The former Commander, Army Corps of Engineers, Major General Sarduarna Davies has said that the Nigerian Army (NA) has reduced the terrorist group, Boko Haram to wanderers and bandits.

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Davis stated this on Friday at the corps headquarters in Bonny Camp, Lagos, while handing over to his successor, Major General Edmund Obi.

The ex-corps Commander reminded his personnel that the ongoing war against the terrorists was an engineering and logistics war, and urged them to ensure that only trained personnel are deployed to the area.

“I am very certain that we are winning the war in the northeast. I am just in from there and I can tell you that they are just bunch of marauders who are just acting like bandits now.

“They don’t act as a formidable force, we can’t say this is where they are, they are just roving around and I know that the Chief of Army staff is putting troops in place to comb the whole of northeast and push them to a place where they can be annihilated.

“I’ve been in and out of that place as many times as I can so I exactly know what I am talking about.”

Although Sarduarna confirmed that the NA was suffering from dearth of equipments, he however stated that the army headquarters was on top of the situation and would soon deliver the necessary tools to conclude the war.
Also speaking at the occasion, the incumbent Commander the corps assured that the army was doing everything within its power to uncover and destroy the source of IEDs for the terrorists.

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