Kindly Share This Story:…Terrorists technically defeated since 2017, General Adeniyi, Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, insists …Survivors still afraid to go back home ….Military, Amnesty disagree over razed communities By Kingsley Omonobi, Abuja The Nigerian armed forces are in the eye of the storm, particularly for their seeming drawbacks in containing the decade-long insurgency/terrorism devastation and unimaginable band of killings daily visited on thousands of hapless Nigerians and communities in the North-East. This is despite the huge resources provided for equipment, training, exchange programmes, motivating welfare and increased deployments of troops. But the military authorities have continued to say they are doing the needful to not only overcome or chase terrorists out of the North-East but that they have also driven the terrorists off Nigerian territories with only occasional soft target attacks being carried out to claim relevance. Consequently, nation-wide shock and outrage greeted reports of the massacre of no fewer than 30 persons by Boko Haram insurgents following their invasion of Sunday, February 10, 2020, of Auno, a village 25 kilometres from Maiduguri, Borno state capital. Not even the counter-claim by military authorities that only 10 persons were killed could assuage the anger of the populace who have since… Read full this story
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