President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday, visited Maiduguri, the Borno State capital to celebrate Nigeria’s 57th Independence anniversary with troops defending the nation against Boko Haram terrorists.
The President had addressed Nigerians from the Presidential Villa before he departed the nation’s capital Abuja to visit the troops who he commended in the address “for rolling back the frontiers of Boko Haram’s terrorism, defeating them and reducing them to cowardly attacks on soft and vulnerable targets.”
Giving an insight into strategies adopted by the military in the counter-terrorism war, Buhari said “our Armed Forces in an effort to enhance the operational capability of troops of OPERATION LAFIYA DOLE have established Mobile Strike Teams in the North East. These will ensure the final push to wipe out the remnants of Boko Haram.
“In addition, through targeted air strikes most of the leadership and identified logistics bases and routes of the insurgents have been neutralized. The Armed Forces have established a Naval presence in the Lake Chad Basin as part of the coordinated military efforts to curtail the movements or re-emergence of the sect in the area.”
