The military, which expressed this through Maj. Gen. Fortunate Irabor, the theater administrator, Operation Lafiya Dole, additionally said the proposed swap bargain including the missing Chibok schoolgirls with some caught Boko Haram individuals ought not be seen as an indication of disappointment.
Irabor said if President Muhammadu Buhari in his insight, chose it was on the right track to run with the swap bargain on the missing Chibok young ladies it ought not be seen as an indication of disappointment with respect to the President or the military to save the missing young ladies.
Irabor, who talked at the 23rd Armored Brigade Jalo Cantonment in Yola on Wednesday, after he got operational instructions from Brig. Gen. Benson Akinroluyo, the Brigade Commander 23rd Armored Brigade, and other military officers required in the counter-insurrection operation from the Adamawa pivot.
He said Nigerians should laud President Buhari for his knowledge to choose the arranged arrival of the missing schoolgirls held in imprisonment by the Boko Haram organization.
He said, "The agent goal of the military in its counter-revolt operations gets from the President's announcement that the war against rebellion would not be said to have been won without the salvage of the Chibok young ladies.
"On the off chance that in the shrewdness of the Commander-in-Chief, he trusts that the swap for the arrival of the Chibok young ladies is what is ideal, that doesn't mean disappointment. How can it add up to disappointment?"
President Buhari, in his initiation proclamation in May 2015, had said until the Chibok young ladies were protected, the war on Boko Haram rebellion couldn't be seen to have been won.
Irabor contended that the military couldn't currently be declared to have fizzled in doing that order on the off chance that it selected arrangements.
He said, "There are different nations where this had been done thus we don't have to go into any dispute with that. Remember that these individuals that we are discussing are Nigerians. Mr. President is Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. He's the President of each Nigerian, both great and awful. In this way, it is bad to say that the military has fizzled if there's a swap."
He included that the military would do the needful to convey the revolt to an end and if that involved chasing down the guerillas until the last man, it would do as such.
He said, "With respect to Shekau; we have had a progression of Shekaus that had been slaughtered. What's more, I can affirm to you that the first Shekau was really killed, the second Shekau was likewise killed. That, I can likewise affirm to you.
"The man that now introduces himself as Shekau, I can likewise affirm to you, was injured a couple of weeks back. I am yet to affirm whether he is dead or not."
He called attention to that the present divisions inside the Boko Haram organization was verification that the maintained military clampdown on the extremists had brought the group under weight and strained their union as the individuals who had felt the warmth were currently very nearly surrendering.
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