According to reports emanating, the Nigerian military has kicked off operations at Sambisa forest to reclaim it from Boko Haram. According to Punch newspaper, the military operations kicked off on Monday Feb. 9th with Nigerian Air Force fighter jets carrying out airstrikes on the dreaded forest. A source who spoke to Punch revealed that;
"The military has started the operation in the Sambisa Forest; the operation started on Monday. For now there is no specific cases of arrest, we don’t have that information now. The Air Force has been operating in the area since Monday. It is after that that the ground troops who are on red alert would move in."Also, another source close to a security office strategic to the operations of the Federal Government also said on Wednesday that a momentum of activities were going on simultaneously in the Sambisa area and other parts of the North East.”.
The National Security Adviser had earlier on Monday stated that the Nigerian military would wipe out all known camps of Boko Haram within the 6 weeks period of election postponement.
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