Senator Babafemi Ojudu has revealed that, despite suffering
heavy casualties and dislodgement from its North-East strongholds, the Boko
Haram sect still boasts "about 6,000 fighters ready to fight to the
finish".
Ojudu, a delegation member of the Senate Committee on
Defence, Army and Intelligence which recently toured the North-East, made the
disclosure yesterday in Lagos, while delivering a lecture commemorating the
70th birthday of Ropo Sekoni, a retired Professor of Comparative Literature and
Cultural Studies.
He cited military authorities disclosing that documents
recovered from vacated insurgents' camps revealed the sect still has about
6,000 fighters ready to continue with the war to Islamise Nigeria.
"Some of the members are hiding at the Sambisa forest
far away from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital," Ojudu said.
"We were told by the military that the sect members are
moving into Ogere in Ogun State, Lagos and Port Harcourt. The military said
they are trying to flush them out, but we don’t know how much they have
succeeded," the politician further said.
The "Boko Haram issue," according to him, "is
the biggest problem before us, but we are not tackling it with urgency. We are
busy talking about 2015."
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