the North Eastern region and have captured five local government areas
in Yobe and Borno States.
This was confirmed by the governors of the affected states, Ibrahim
Gaidam of Yobe and Kashim Shettima of Borno, This Day reports.
According to the National Economic Council (NEC), who spoke to state
house correspondents after their meeting in Abuja, Shettima and Gaidam
told them the insurgents were still hiding in Sambisa forest.
The governors were said to have called for increased military
deployment and provision of sophisticated military equipment in those
areas.
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In his remarks, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who presided over the
meeting, regretted that the insurgency had affected the economic life
of the North-east and the country as a whole.
He therefore called on the council to speak as a team and put pressure
on the service chiefs to increase their effort in battling the Boko
Haram insurgency.
This disclosure was a disappointing departure from what the Nigerian
military and the neighbouring armies of Chad, Cameroun and Niger
accomplished in the last months of former President Goodluck
Jonathan's tenure.
The troops had recaptured all the territories occupied by the
insurgents and had them on the run before Jonathan handed over to
President Muhammadu Buhari on May 29.
Since Buhari took over power, the insurgents have renewed their
attacks. There have been suicide bomb attacks almost on a daily basis
and hundreds of people have been killed in less than two months.
On July 22, multiple bomb blasts rocked Gombe, the capital of Gombe state.
-naij
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