“Try as we might to postpone them, days of reckoning inevitably arrive” – Brandon Mull
It may take days, weeks, months even decades but it eventually comes and the transgressor has no option but to face it as it is a natural phenomenon. No one can escape it, Just like Boko Haram terrorists cannot escape what has come for them.
Over the years, the Boko Haram terrorists have been a thorn in the country’s neck. They have caused mayhem. They have taken husbands from wives, wives from husbands, children from parents and they have ravaged homes and peace. People live in fear with the mention of Boko Haram.
People have lost their freedom; freedom to own what is theirs, freedom to say ‘this is my village’; freedom to live and freedom to life…
But as they say, everything that has a beginning definitely has an end. A warrior has emerged. A warrior has risen to save his people, to return freedom to his people and to stand for his people. His name is Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai
General Buratai has been a force of nature since his military career, holding several important positions till he was appointed the Chief of Army Staff in 2015. Though he inherited the Boko Haram terrorists, he has dealt a heavy blow on them.
He had recently moved to the Theatre Command in Maiduguri to coordinate the operation and to mete justice to Boko Haram. Conquests after conquests have been recorded since he got there. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Defence Headquarters, Maj. Gen. John Eneche, informed the media that 343 Boko Haram/ISWAP fighters and 153 armed bandits had been killed by the troops between March 18 and May 5, 2020
Recently, the troops of the Nigerian Army also had a successful artillery engagement with Boko Haram fighters at Buk in Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State. The assault engagement resulted in the neutralization of 56 Boko Haram terrorists. In a similar operation, 11 Boko Haram members were equally neutralised by the troops of Nigerian Army on Tuesday, April 21, 2020, while many of the insurgents escaped with fatal injuries.
It would be recalled that Gen Burutai did not hurriedly return to Maiduguri to bury his mother that passed on recently. Instead, he had chosen to remain at the front line of the insurgency war to encourage and motivate the troops.
Also, the sustained aerial and artillery bombardments of the insurgents have left Boko Haram commanders with no choice than to indicate interests to surrender their arms and ammunition and to start pushing for a peace deal.
David Longpet wrote “To the Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists, Gen. Buratai is their adversary; a tormentor, a nightmare and a fiend. And so, many times, insurgents ambushed this terrible foe and attempted to sniff life out of him. But as usual, Gen. Buratai dealt them a hard blow. He matched them with superior force. Many sprawled into their early graves, but Gen. Buratai emerged unscathed”.
General Buratai has shown that he is an upright and just soldier, a fierce General and a fearless executioner. He is an indomitable rival and the ‘perpetual will to allot to every terrorist what he is due’. He has mete his justice on terror and brought Boko Haram to its knees. He is the long awaited nemesis.
The fates are just: They give us but our own; Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown – John Greenleaf Whittier
