Thursday, 29 May 2014

We’re fighting Al-Qaeda not Boko Haram —Military •Insists it knows where Chibok girls are

THE Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Air
Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, on
Wednesday, said the ongoing counter-
terrorism and counter-insurgency war
has gone beyond Boko Haram Islamic
sect to a broader war against Al-
Qeada terror networks in North and
West Africa.
Badeh stated this in Abuja, when the
Social Welfare Network Initiative
(SWNI), a coalition of civil society
organisations (CSOs) and community-
based non-governmental organisations
in Nigeria paid him a solidarity visit at
Defence Headquarters.
The CDS said the military and Federal
Government were in a serious war far
bigger than confronting Boko Haram,
saying that Al-Qeada was now fully in
charge of terrorist activities in the
country.
He, however, assured that despite the
“formidable nature of the global terror
network,” Nigeria will defeat them,
while giving further assurance that the
kidnapped Chibok girls will be rescued.
“I will say this to you, we are fighting
more than Boko Haram. We are no
longer fighting Boko Haram but Al-
Qaeda in North and West Africa. Al-
Qaeda is formidable, but we will defeat
them. As for our girls, we will bring
them back,” he said.
Speaking further, Badeh warned those
attacking the military to desist from
doing so.
He said the scathing attacks and
unconstructive criticisms against the
military could be counter-productive
and impact negatively on the security
of the country.
Earlier, the national coordinator of
SWNI, Mr Emmanuel Osemeka, had
assured members of the Armed Forces
of their support, saying that “we are
not worried about our capacity to
prosecute this war, as we are all
witnesses to the exploits of our
military in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and
many other African countries in the
recent past.”

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