We’ve Decimated Boko Haram Insurgents – Military

• Between 17 and 20 local government areas were under Boko Haram control in 2015

• Boko Haram Is now a weakened enemy of the country

The defence headquarters says Boko Haram no longer wields the kind of power and authority it had before president Muhammadu Buhari came to assumed office.

Defense spokesman, John Enenche, who stated this when he featured on Channels television’s Politics Today, said the insurgents have been weakened.

To commemorate the armed forces remembrance day, the presidency had said Boko Haram insurgents are weaker compared to 2015.

“Boko Haram is much weaker today than in 2015, as attested to by the governor of Borno state on December 6, 2020,” Femi Adesina, presidentiaal spokesman, had said in a statement

Corroborating the position of the presidency, Enenche said the ranks of Boko Haram have plummeted and no longer pose any significant threat to the nation’s sovereignty like they did prior to 2015.

Ekohotblog reports that he disclosed that nothing less than 17 local government areas were under Boko Haram control in 2015.

He noted that the insurgents set up administrative structure and collected taxes, adding that they also dethroned monarchs and forced them into exile.

He, however, said those territories were recaptured under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari.

“Yes, the commander-in-chief is very right by saying that we have a weaker BOKO Haram. Why is it so? In the sense that as at 2015, before they came on board, we had a very terrible situation in the northeast.

“Between 17 and 20 local government areas were under the full authority of the insurgents, that is the Boko Haram group and what does that translate to. It translated to a fact that they (referring to Boko Haram) constituted authority, local administration and judiciary.

“They were even collecting levies, which we can term taxes, the people were subject to them, they sack traditional rulers and most of them were into exile. By 2016, the whole place were recaptured.”

Eneche said the current crop of Boko Haram insurgents are hiding from one bush to another enclave with no capacity to fight.

“Now what we have as Boko Haram is a weakened enemy of the country, so it is very right going by my analysis I just made,” he said.

“Whereby they were moving from bush to enclave, from enclave to bush. They do not have any sovereignty or authority in any territory in the northeast, by extension Nigeria, so we now have a weakened Boko Haram.

“Of, course if they are strong force to be contended with, why don’t they come out? They cannot come out.”