President Goodluck Jonathan has declared that his government was determined to liberate all territories presently occupied by the Islamic militant group, Boko Haram. The President made this statement through his representative, Mohammed Wakil in Maiduguri during the commencement of the Presidential Initiative of for the North East.
The president reassured Nigerians that the Federal Government would deploy all necessary forces to liberate territories occupied by Boko Haram.
Also reinstating the words of the Chief of Army Staff, Major-General Kenneth Minimah the President said that the armed forces was mobilising human and material resources to reclaim lost territories and working on plans for the rehabilitation, reconstruction and redevelopment of the insurgency-ravaged North East region because the administration is determined to defeat Boko Haram at all costs.
The President listed non- military interventions to include the Presidential Initiatives for the North East headed by the National Security Adviser; the Presidential Committee on the Distribution of Relief Materials headed by the NEMA Director General, Mallam Sani Sidi; Victims Support Fund chaired by former Defence Minister, Lt General T.Y.Danjuma ; and Safe School Initiative coordinated by the Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr Okonjo Iweala.