Nigeria winning insurgency war – Rights groups

Two pro-rights groups, Africa Advocacy for Leadership and Good Governance (AALG) and Transparency Network Centre (TNC), have reiterated that despite “numerous media publications and headlines skewed and slanted to favour the insurgents against the Nigerian Army, it is winning the terrorism war.” The groups stated this yesterday in Abuja in a statement jointly issued by AALG’s National Coordinator, Mahmud Bello, and TNC’s President, Farouk Umar.
It read in part: “They are just giving the impression that the insurgents are winning the war.
This is a deliberate falsehood and misleading narrative invidiously calculated to tarnish the unblemished professional reputation of our distinguished military, who have spent the better part of their lives protecting and defending this country from external aggression and securing the territory of Nigeria.
“Ordinarily, we could have kept quiet, as some of these subterranean moves are aimed at denigrating and maligning the Nigerian military and burying their hard fought war into oblivion by falsely casting sensational headlines in favor of the insurgents.
We are constrained to issue the following statements.” Continuing, it read: “It is also common knowledge that the Boko Haram insurgents have been degraded, decimated and defeated.
They are scattered all over the North-east in small cells where they launch opportunistic attacks and the Nigerian Military are on their toes every day making sure that these small pockets that cause myriads of challenges here and there will be rounded up soonest.
A lot of military personnel have been deployed to these remote areas to nip in the bud once and for all these pockets of Boko Haram insurgents trying to regroup.
A realistic assessment of the security situation shows the insurgents are not winning the war, but have been degraded and demystified by the Nigerian military.
“Recently also, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen.
Yusuf Buratai, has approved Forward Operating Bases (FOBs) to counter external aggressions at the 82 Division, Enugu.
The FOBs will be located at the stretch of the Nigerian border from the Taraba axis to Bakassi axis.”