While the Army chief led the ground troop with heavy artillery, his counterpart, the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar, piloted a fighter jet to give aerial support to the ground troop as they charged through villages and routed the terrorists from their strongholds along the Mafa, Gamborou Ngala and Dikwa, roads all in Borno State.
The Army chief led by the General Officer Commanding, 7, Division, Nigerian Army, Maiduguri, Major-General Adeosun, principal staff officers from the Army Headquarters, Abuja, and some journalists, however, came under attack from the terrorists, who laid an ambush for the convoy.
The army chief, who made the vow during an interview with journalists at Dikwa, shortly after addressing troops, who made further advance to rout the militants from their strongholds, said without mincing words that “I want to assure the good people of Nigeria that the days of Boko Haram is over.
In just matter of days we are ending this nonsense and all those who had been displaced from their homes would return and continue with their normal activities.”
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