President
Goodluck Jonathan has given a strong assurance that Boko Haram will be
defeated in the north eastern states of Yobe, Borno and Adamawa in the
next couple of days.
President Jonathan told the Voice of
America (VOA) in an interview that the military is doing its best to
clear the insurgents from occupied areas by Boko Haram.
The
president said the government is aware of an arrangement where some
Boko Haram fighters are being trained abroad, expressing optimism that
the insurgents will soon be destroyed.
He further noted that
there is an agreement with foreign technicians to train Nigerian
soldiers on the use of the newly acquired military hardware.
The
French Defence Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, had on Wednesday assured
that France will increase its West African counter insurgency forces to
support the Multi National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) fighting Boko Haram
in West Africa.
“We will slightly increase the numbers on
Barkhane to give us the means to support and accompany the tensions that
are taking place around Lake Chad,” he said, without giving details.
Cameroon,
Chad, Niger and Benin have mobilised forces this year to help Nigeria
defeat Boko Haram after it seized large amounts of territory and staged
cross-border attacks.
France already has about 3,000 troops,
excluding special forces, spanning from Mauritania in the West to
southern Libya in the East tasked with hunting down al Qaeda-linked
groups.
Credit: Channels
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