Magashi Bashir, the Defence Minister, has asked the troops of Operation Lafiya Dole not to fear any bullet from the terrorists.

The Minister gave the charge on Sunday during a visit to the Theatre Command in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, in the company of the Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor and other service chiefs.

“Don’t fear any bullet, the bullet will come and it will go. If you are not meant to die by a bullet you will never die but if you are meant to die by a bullet, even in your bedroom bullet will come and reach you, which is what I experienced during service.”

He noted that the motive of the visit was to assess the fighting spirit of the troops of operation Lafiya Dole and also to motivate them.

He also disclosed the Federal Government’s plan to recruit more hands to relieve battle fatigued soldiers.

“Very soon we will embark on the recruitment of other soldiers and officers so that we improve the manpower holding of our armed forces.

“We will bring new equipment, new skills in which I will like all of you to benefit from to enable you to be more proficient, more effective in this assignment you’re doing. We have lost time; we are now almost ten years in this operation.

“There are many other operations that we are doing in terms of banditry and other things in this country and I am sure that given the right tools, you will do this country proud. We believe in you, your training, professionalism and we believe you can do the country the requirements of beating the Boko haram as we have it now”, Magashi added.

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Senator Ndume while speaking  to newsmen on Sunday night in Maiduguri attributed poor representation and lack of connection with the grassroots people as reasons for his demand.

According  to the lawmaker, going by the 90% budget performance of 2020, the Buhari-led government is working, but the impact is not being felt at the grassroots level, blaming the ministers.

He said, “I am telling you the FEC should be reconstituted. Let him bring in people that are connected to the grassroots.

“The President should look at his cabinet especially the FEC. You are talking about those fighting war, what of those that are sitting down there? They are disconnected. We have ministers that don’t know anyone in their local government, but you people are not talking about them.”

Ndume , who represents  Borno South Senatorial District also blamed the Army’s inability to end the war on poor funding and shortage of the required equipment.

“When you say the Nigerian Army performed better in Sierra Leone, Liberia and all that why was that? They had the good training, resilience and gallantry but above all they had all they needed; United Nations was providing everything they had their helicopters they had ammunition they had everything”.

Speaking further, the lawmaker said it is unfair to expect the Army to perform optimally when their needs have not been met.

Ndume expressed optimism that with the new platforms recently acquired by the Nigerian Air force and the army, as well as a budgetary allocation of ₦500 billion with ₦100bn going to Operation Lafiya Dole alone, 2021 promises to be a better year.

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Major General John Enenche, the Coordinator of Defence Media Operations, confirmed this in a statement on Wednesday.

He revealed that the death of the insurgents followed a failed “attack on troops’ location at Banki Junction and Response Area Firgi within the 7 Division Strike Group.”

He also added that the terrorists who met their waterloo were some high ranking Commanders of the Abubakar Shekau’s faction of the Boko Haram terrorist’s group.

The statement read,  “Consequently, troops of Operation LAFYA DOLE carried out a counter-attack against the terrorists on the 26th of May 2020. After the attack, human intelligence confirmed the death of some high ranking Commanders of the Abubakar Shekau’s faction of the Boko Haram terrorist’ group.

“The BHT/ISWAP Commanders that were killed include Manzar Halid, Amir Abu Fatima and Nicap among others.

“Additionally, Seventy-two (72) members of the sect were also neutralised. Others wounded with narrow chances of survival include some high profile Commanders and fighters namely: Abu Jamratu AL-Naweer, Kaka Bana and Tareta Babakari,”.

Also, Enenche said a large number of their equipment which included gun trucks, motorcycles and bicycles were destroyed by troops in collaboration with the Air Task Force.

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