The government of Nigeria has once again made the claim that the Islamic State affiliate Boko Haram no longer has the ability to freely operate in the nation’s northeast, as its courts prepare to be overwhelmed with over 1,600 cases against individual members of the jihadist group.
“They’ve been completely degraded. They don’t have the capacity to launch the kind of attacks they did before,” Minister Lai Mohammed told the Associated Press on Tuesday. “But like with all asymmetrical wars, you cannot stop the suicide bombs or the attacks on soft targets. But clearly, the government is winning. It’s a war that can be won.”
President Muhammadu Buhari, who won the 2015 race largely on a campaign promise to totally eradicate the group, claimed in late December of that year that “technically, we have won the war.” – READ MORE
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