President Muhammadu Buhari has said the battle waged against terrorists who falsely masquerade under the name of Islam is approaching its conclusion.
The President said this yesterday, while sending his best wishes to Muslims in Nigeria and across the world celebrating the occasion of the Holy month of Ramadan, which reached its end and marked the Eid.
The President, in a press statement issued by his spokesman, Garba Shehu, said, The fight has been long and hard. The final victory is within sight. Boko Haram and its offshoots final embers are now fading”, adding that After a period of fasting and reflection, this year, we have cause to welcome the occasion in hope.
Buhari said an end had been brought to a silo approach among the agencies, assured that there would be no shortage of funds to provide security for the citizens, and further directed increased coordination and cooperation among security agencies.
The President, who appraised the security situation across the country, said: Last month, the leader of ISWAP was killed in an airstrike. Since the New Year, thousands of fighters have surrendered to enter rehabilitation programmes. The territories they used to occupy are now seeing the return of those who were forced to flee their barbarity. Normality is finally beginning to return to the Northeast. It is a long process. Yet it is one we are, together, now embarking upon.
With the designation of bandit groups as terrorists, the challenges of banditry and kidnapping are being tackled differently in the North-western and North-Central States, where the latest military acquisitions and the Armed Forces are being fanned out across the region to thwart acts of terror”.
