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You Failed Woefully To Defeat Boko Haram – Middle Belt Forum Blasts Buhari

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Jan 11, 2023.

Middle Belt Forum has blasted Buhari over his inability to eliminate Boko Haram.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has slammed President Muhammadu Buhari for failing to completely defeat Boko Haram.

Recall that President Buhari had insisted that his administration had cleared out Boko Haram terrorists causing unrest in the country’s Northeastern part.

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This online media platform understands that President Buhari stated this at the banquet organized in his honour in Damaturu, Yobe State capital, on Monday night.

Reacting to the President’s comments, the National President of MBF, Dr. Bitrus Pogu, said Buhari has failed woefully to deliver his promise to completely eliminate Boko Haram from the country.

He asserted that the President, rather than fulfilling his promise to Nigerians, watched helplessly while the insurgents spread from the North East to all parts of the country.

He said, “Just two days to Christmas, Boko Haram attacked Chibok and killed two people, an elderly person, and a toddler. They also abducted some people who were preparing for Christmas. What that tells you is that Boko Haram activities are still on. Their operational headquarters are still there. Many of the things Boko Haram are doing in the North are not even reported.

“There are extensions of Boko Haram in the North West and in the North Central. They have been attacking parts of Kaduna state right to even the end of last year. So then what does his fulfilling his promise mean? Is it saying that they have stopped one aspect of their activities which is bombing targets across the country; and now they have introduced kidnappings and attacking people and communities? Is that what it means?

“It is for Nigerians to judge whether the President has done what he promised in 2015. At that time he told us that it would be history, that he would eliminate Boko Haram.

“First of all, we were deceived; a flag was brought to him, ground zero whatever, we knew it was not true, and the attacks continued. And then it spread to the North West, parts of the North Central, and now it is all over the place, including South West, South East and even South-South.

“So Nigerians who are the ones who feel the brunt would answer him appropriately that, Mr. President, you failed woefully and have not fulfilled the promise you made to make Boko Haram history in Nigeria. And we need greater political will to ensure that the military goes after them to decimate them and not wait in a location to repel Boko Haram or bandits as they have renamed them in the North West and other places.”

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