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Boko Haram Is Technically Defeated- Lai Mohammed

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Oct 22, 2019.

– Minister of Information, Laid Mohammed said that Book Haram insurgents have been technically defeated
– He said that Nigeria is currently facing global terrorism that has no boundary, no frontier
– Terrorism is a global issue. Between 2009 and 2015 we were fighting Boko Haram, but today we are fighting global terrorism

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said that Nigeria is currently facing global terrorism that has no boundary, no frontier,saying that boko haram terrorists have been technically defeated.
The minister stated this on Monday, while he paid a courtesy visit to the new headquarters of a print media in Lagos.
The honourable Minister fielding questions from the editorial board of the newspaper led by the Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief, Mr Onuoha Ukeh, the minister said: “I stand by what I said that Boko Haram is technically defeated.
“What we are having today is global terrorism where you have the ISIS, ISWAP Al-qaeda all working together.
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“Terrorism is a global issue. Between 2009 and 2015 we were fighting Boko Haram, but today we are fighting global terrorism where the remnants of the Army in Syria are now joining hands with the ISWAP and others,” he said.
Mohammed added: “I was on ground in Bama, Konduga and Maiduguri and I know what I saw before I made that claim.
“We are fighting global terrorism and that is why we are appealing to our foreign partners, especially the UN and our neighbours.
“By the time we get more platforms and the new helicopters that are being expected there will be tremendous improvement.”