Read how Buhari has exaggerated the war against Boko haram.

 

President Muhammadu Buhari has altered beyond normal proportions  the military’s success against Boko Haram, base on the report from officers in northern Nigeria in response to an American commander’s testimony that the Islamic extremist cluster still holds territory.
Buhari aforesaid in January that Boko Haram is “currently not holding any territory these days as we have a tendency to speak.”
His claim, created at a summit in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), was met with skepticism in Nigeria.
Buhari’s claim was contradicted last week by the Commander of the US Africa


Command, General David Rodriguez, who told the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington that Boko Haram “does own some important territory in northern Nigeria.”
Rodriguez’s statement indicated that the Nigerian government is overstating its success within the campaign to eliminate the extremists, a number of northern officers aforesaid at the weekend.
“All we all know is that Boko Haram lacks the capability to hold out their usual commando-like attacks throughout that they march in and run down cities or villages, however that's not enough to mention that they're not around,” Ngari Modu, a transport official within the Nganzai space of Borno State.

Modu, aforesaid who stays in an exceedingly camp for displaced persons within the town of Maiduguri, aforesaid his home village and encompassing areas stay “no-go” zones.
“We are left confused every time we have a tendency to hear the army saying no territory is currently underneath the management of Boko Haram,” he told the Associated Press (AP) on telephone.

In the ten months since he took over promising to halt the insurgence, Buhari has replaced the military’s leadership, resupplied troopers and stirred the headquarters for the fight from the distant capital, Abuja, to Maiduguri.

Senator Mohammad Ndume from Borno State aforesaid the troopers are succeeding in alienating Boko Haram’s access to food and provides and he's assured that eventually the military can regain all territory from Boko Haram.