Why is Boko Haram hard to defeat, by APC chieftain

Abuja

National Vice Chairman, North-east of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Mustapha Salihu, has said that the ideology behind Boko Haram insurgency had made it difficult to be completely defeated.
He, however, said “the present administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has done well in fighting the scourge.”
Speaking yesterday at the national secretariat of the APC after receiving an award as Grand Commander of Nigerian Students, presented to him by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), he said cases of terrorism “even in more advanced countries have not been able to completely tackle insurgents.”
“Terrorism is motivation value-oriented it is very hard to defeat because you will find out that this group is not even a group, it is an ideology. They don’t have where they meet. I want to tell you that this government has done well in fighting terrorists more especially in North-east.
“First of all, we should understand that Boko Haram is a terrorist organisation and when we define terrorism, it is an act of violence, perpetrated by the non -combatant target, unknown type of combatant group, unknown combatant target to cajole government for certain kinds of decisions and you have to look for motivation of a terrorist whether political, economic or values,” he said.

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