The minister of defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, has said that the wanted leader of the Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau, is still alive but is on the run and could possibly be hiding in Sambisa forest.
President Muhammadu Buhari did not attend the opening ceremony of the Nigerian Army Small Arms championship, NASAC, holding at the Sambisa Forest, former stronghold of the Boko Haram Terrorist group as promised.
Governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, has called on citizens of the State to rise up in unity in order to fight terrorism which, according to him, wants the people to “live in the permanent slavery of fear.”
Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram, has surfaced in a new video on Thursday to refute claims by the Nigerian government that the sect has been decimated and flushed out of the Sambisa forest.
Lucky Irabor, a Major General and the Theatre Commander of the counter-insurgency operation of the Nigerian military in the North East codenamed “Operation Lafiya Dole”, has disclosed that the Army arrested a total 1,240 suspected Boko Haram terrorists after the capture of Sambisa forest, the major stronghold of the insurgents.
