“There is no inch of the Nigerian territory that is under the control of the Boko Haram insurgents.”
The attack on Sunday came barely three days after the Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, Maj-Gen. Olusegun Adeniyi, claimed that the army had technically defeated the Boko Haram insurgents.
Auno is near Maiduguri and had suffered several attacks that claimed many lives and property in the decade- long insurgency. Gen. Adeniyi said that the Maiduguri/Damaturu road remained closed by 4:00 p.m. to protect lives and property in the ongoing counter-insurgency operations. The governor cautioned the affected residents against taking the law into their hands by protesting against the incident and the army.
The president renewed the pledge at a high-level breakfast dialogue on ‘’Stop the War on Children Affected by Armed Conflicts: Dividend of Silencing the Guns’’, a side event during the 33rd AU summit. The violations are killing and maiming of children, recruitment or use of children as soldiers, sexual violence against children, abduction of children, attacks against schools or hospitals and denial of humanitarian access for children.
A statement by the NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, said the feat was achieved on February 8 when fighter jets dispatched by the Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole obliterated a compound in the settlement where the leaders had assembled for a meeting.
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