The Chief of Army Staff in Nigeria, Lt-General Kenneth Minimah, has appealed to Nigerians to be patient with the military as they battle against Insurgency in the northeast.
General Minimah made the appeal at the Third Quarter Conference of the Chief of Army Staff held on Monday in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.
He announced that the Army was reappraising its strategies and operational tactics which would soon yield the desired result.
The event, according to the Chief of Policy and Plans of the Nigerian Army, General Jack Nwaogbo, was organised for the Army to reappraise itself and strategize its operations especially in the fight against terrorism.
The Chief of Army Staff gave assurances that the military was winning the war against terrorism, insisting that the terrorists’ activities would soon be a thing of the past.
He, however, warned the men of the Nigerian Army to stay clear of any act of indiscipline that would be capable of bringing the military to disrepute.
It is not the first time the Military is promising an end to insurgency, but Nigerians will only hope that the words of the Chief of Army Staff will come to pass in the shortest possible time, as the over four years insurgency has claimed over 10,000 lives.
Members of the Boko Haram terrorist group has carried out series of attacks on churches, mosques, schools and villages in Nigeria’s northeast and some states in the central region, with one of the attacks on a village in Borno resulting in the abduction of over 200 girls from their school dormitory in the Government Girls Secondary School Chibok.
Since the girls were abducted on April 14, groups have called on security agencies and the Nigerian government to act fast and rescue the girls, but the military in May said it had identified the location of the girls and was planning their rescue to ensure there would not be casualties on the side of the girls.
Air Chief Marshall Alex Badeh told some protesters at the Defense Headquarters in Abuja on May 26 that the military was, however, not using force to rescue the kidnapped girls.
He said that the military had information on the location of the girls but would tread softly to get the students out.
