Boko Haram has been defeated — Lai Mohammed insists

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed 

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has insisted that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration is winning the war against insurgency in the country.

Mohammed said this despite reports of increasing Boko Haram attacks in the North-east,



He claimed that the government is winning the war against insecurity including the Boko-Haram insurgency, banditry, kidnapping and other security threats.

The minister, at an end of the year press conference held in Lagos on Monday, said the Boko-Haram insurgents have been ‘confined’ by the Nigerian troops while “banditry and kidnapping have been reduced to the barest minimum.”

“Our gallant men and women in uniform stepped up the fight against terrorism in 2019, despite the fact that they are not just fighting the rump of Boko Haram but also the Islamic State’s West African Province (ISWAP).




“Yes, they occasionally attack soft targets from the fringe islands in Chad, where they have been confined by our troops, but they don’t hold any territory like they did before the advent of this administration, when they hoisted their flag in their Bama Caliphate, collected taxes, as well as removed and installed Emirs. They no longer have such capabilities.

“The successful attacks they carried out in Abuja and other cities are now a thing of the past. The terrorists’ recent attempt to attack soft targets in Damaturu, the Yobe State Capital, and Biu in Borno State were repelled by the military, with the terrorists suffering heavy casualties,” Mr Mohammed told journalists.