Army Chief Brutai Says Boko Haram Militants Picked Wrong Fight With Wrong Enemy

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, on Saturday reassured Nigerians that the army will take every necessary step to restore normalcy across the northeast.

He says the Boko Haram militants that have in the last seven years pushed for the establishment of an Islamic State and an end to Western education in the region ‘picked the wrong fight against the wrong enemy’.

The COAS gave the assurance in Goneri and Buniyadi, two prominent frontline locations the Nigerian Army is currently prosecuting the Boko Haram war in Yobe State.

Zaria Killing: Shiites attacked my convoy with petrol bombs – Buratai

The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai has revealed that members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, who belong to the Shiites movement, attacked his convoy with petrol bombs in Zaria, Kaduna State in December 2015.

Buratai made this revelation when he received in audience the Executive Secretary of the Centre for Crisis Communication, Air Commodore Yusuf Anas (rtd), who led the management of the centre to pay him a courtesy visit in his office.

The army chief also stated that the troops of the Nigerian Army were gallant patriots who had the interest of the corporate existence and integrity of the Nigerian state at heart and have sworn to do anything and everything possible, including laying down their lives, in order to the defend the country.

NIGERIAN ARMY: DAILY POST PLEASE SPARE US THE UNNECESSARY CONTROVERSY

The attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn to an online publication in the Daily Post of today bearing the by-line of one Mr. Wale titled “Boko Haram Not Controlling Any Local Government In Borno”.

In it was alleged that “the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, has dismissed insinuations that two local governments in Borno state are under the control of Islamist group, Boko Haram”, contrary to an alleged assertion by “Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, who told the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir David Lawal, over the weekend, that Boko Haram were in control of Abadam and Mobbar local governments in the state when he played host to Lawal, who led a six-man delegation of the Federal Government sent by President Muhammadu Buhari to commiserate with Borno and Adamawa states following the recent suicide attacks targeted at Mosques in the two states”. The report further alleged that General Buratai disputed the claims by the Governor.