Nigeria’s Military Service Chiefs have said that bad weather conditions in parts of the country and logistics are hindering the war against Boko Haram insurgents.
The service chiefs led by the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Abayomi Olonisakin said this while briefing President Muhammadu Buhari during a meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
After the briefing, Olonisakin while speaking with state house correspondents said “We briefed the President on the security situation on ground after a 60-day review and we had to brief him on the challenges we have and ensure that the mandate we have is properly delivered.
“Of course, the challenges we are looking at are the issues of probably the weather as it were and some other logistics that we feel we should have so that the mandate can be quickly delivered.”
On whether the December deadline to end insurgency is still feasible, he said “The mandate is that we should clear Boko Haram from the occupied territories and ensure that we reclaim all the lost grounds. That is exactly what we are doing.
“It is a military operation and military operations have timelines and these timelines, we are working on them assiduously.”