President Goodluck Jonathan says Boko Haram members have reverted to bombing soft targets as they are feeling the heat of the ongoing intense counter-insurgency operations.
Jonathan described the Boko Haram’s reversion to suicide bombing of soft targets as an act of a desperate sect facing extinction.
The president, in a statement yesterday by his spokesman, Reuben Abati, said this while commiserating with families of victims of the bombings in Kano and Potiskum earlier in the day.
Abati said Jonathan condemned the reversion by Boko Haram to “the callous bombing of soft targets in parts of Nigeria in the wake of the ongoing rapid recovery by gallant Nigerian troops and their multinational allies of areas formerly controlled by the sect”.
He said Jonathan shared the grief of all the bereaved families and was deeply saddened by the continued loss of many innocent lives at the hands of “misguided and desperate fanatics who are now feeling the heat of the intense counter-insurgency operation by the Nigerian armed forces”.
He said the president assured all Nigerians and the people of the North-eastern states in particular that the days of mourning victims of incessant terrorist attacks in the country would soon be over as the tide has now definitely turned against Boko Haram.
He said Jonathan further assured Nigerians that the gallant, courageous and patriotic officers and men of the Nigerian armed forces, supported with new platforms, equipment and logistics provided by the federal government, would carry the ongoing operations against the terrorists through to a successful conclusion in the shortest possible time.
Abati said the president affirmed that his administration would continue to take all necessary actions to guarantee the success of ongoing military operations against the terrorist group and drastically reduce its ability to take and hold territory or recruit, groom and brainwash young persons to undertake suicide bombing attacks on soft targets.
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