The Chairman of the Victims Support Fund, Lt.-Gen.
Theophilus Danjuma (retd.), on Wednesday said
members of the committee would not visit Sambisa
Forest believed to be one of the strongholds of the
Boko Haram sect except President Goodluck Jonathan
was ready to take the lead.
He spoke just as Jonathan vowed that the days of the
sect were numbered.
Danjuma, a former Minister of Defence, spoke while
responding to Jonathan’s inauguration speech in
which he tasked members of the committee to be
ready to visit all parts of the country including the
dreaded forest.
“Mr. President, we won’t go to Sambisa Forest. As the
Commander-in-Chief, you should take the lead and
we will follow,” he said amidst laughter from those
who attended the inauguration.
Danjuma also shocked those in attendance when he
told the President that the insurgents, who were
wreaking havoc in parts of the country were having
the upper hand.
He stressed the need for the war to be won quickly.
The National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki
(retd.), agreed with Danjuma that the war must be
won quickly.
He said the government had realised that it was time
to draw the line.
“We have realised that the time has come to draw
the line. We will win the war and do so quickly,” he
promised.
Jonathan, in his inauguration speech, said the days of
the Boko Haram sect were numbered and that it was
a matter of days for their violent campaign to come
to an end.
He regretted that members of the sect had wasted
unimaginable human and material resources since
they started their campaign of violence.
He noted that the sect members had been
brainwashed into believing that they were doing God
a favour, describing them as enemies of humanity.
While saying that there would be no hiding place for
the sect, Jonathan said his government would expose
them.
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