The Nigerian Army has announced that it has moved its Special Forces Training School to Buni Yadi, a town once controlled by Boko Haram in Yobe State.
According to PREMIUM TIMES, Chief of Army Staff Tukur Buratai spoke on the logic behind the move saying “We know the importance of this place – Buni Yadi. This is the route they (insurgents) passed through to other parts of the North East and even Plateau in the North Central,” he said while addressing troops at the training school on Saturday.
“It is better for us to have dominated and taken over the place,”
Buni Yadi, the headquarters of Gujba Local Government Area, was a stronghold for Boko Haram a long while before being retaken by the military in March 2015.
Recall that it was the town where 59 schoolboys were killed by the Boko Haram insurgents while they slept in their dormitories at a Federal Government College in 2014.