The Acting Director of Defence Information, Colonel Rabe Abubakar, has declared that the insurgency ravaging the North-Eastern part of Nigeria would soon be ‘a thing of the past’.
Colonel Abubakar made the declaration when a group of Journalists visited him in his office at the Defence Headquarters, Abuja on Monday.
The defence spokesman pointed out that with the renewed commitment of the military leadership and the determination of the troops in the mission areas, the end to insurgency was imminent.
He, however, eulogised the heart-warming success of the brilliant coordination between the air element of the Nigerian Air Force and the ground troops of the Nigerian Army that had uprooted the Boko Haram insurgency from their strongholds, including their several camps in Sambisa Forest.
Colonel Abubakar emphasised that it was unpatriotic for any citizen, no matter under whatsoever guise, to carry arms against his/her own people and the country.
He then called on the unrepentant members of the terrorist group to have a rethink, lay down their arms and abandon their strange and uncivilised ideology for the betterment of mankind.
The defence spokesman also commended the troops for their ever-ready posture to tackle head-on all forms of criminality by the terrorists.
He attributed the feat recorded so far to motivation and injection of right arsenal in the prosecution of the battle against the Boko Haram terrorists in the north-eastern part of the oil-rich nation.
While making comment on the issue of suicide bombings, Colonel Abubakar re-assured the public that the Defence Headquarters was re-strategising to halt such inhuman activities.
He hinted the reporters about how security agencies had arrested a suicide bomber, who was attempting to blow up Yankari Motor Park in Bauchi, before he could detonate his bomb.
Colonel Abubakar, therefore, appealed to the citizens to be on alert and conscious of crowded and populated public places including markets and places of worship.
He urged Nigerians to collaborate with the military and other security agencies in the supply of timely information that could assist the agencies to be pro-active in their resolve to contain insurgency.
His statement came a day after some terrorists surrendered to troops in north-east Nigeria.
According to the spokesman for the Nigerian Army, Colonel Sani Usman, sustained offensive operations, pre-emptive air strikes by the Nigerian Air Force and routes blocking by ground troops, all geared towards constricting and snuffing out the Boko Haram terrorists, are strategies that had forced some of the terrorists to willingly surrender.
Earlier last week, the Nigerian military disclosed that it had wiped out all known Boko Haram terror camps and cells in northeast Nigeria, adding that the sect was so military defeated and weakened” that they could never hold territory in that part of the country again.
The Nigerian troops have re-strategised and doubled efforts in combating terrorism in order to meet up with the three months ultimatum given to it by President Muhammadu Buhari.