Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed has appealed to Nigerian media to
stop giving oxygen to Boko Haram by glamorizing their activities. He
said this while speaking as a guest on Channels TV.
“Just as I said in my meeting with the newspapers editors in Lagos on
the 21st of December, the military has largely met the deadline to
defeat Boko Haram, and the military has matched the capacity of
terrorists to carry out the attacks they used to.
Of course, I also mentioned that the terrorists will
continue to attack such targets as markets, motor parks, entertainment
centers and houses of worship; and this is exactly what is going on. We
know that in an insurgency, the war does not end in one day. The attack
on soft targets will continue, but we also want to appeal to the media
to stop giving oxygen to the Boko Haram insurgency. When we glamorize
the attacks, it gives the terrorists more life and in a time of
insurgency like this, the media also has a role to play, which is not to
glamorize the attacks. What is happening is not unexpected; what is
happening is what will happen in any insurgency. But the fact of the
attack is that Boko Haram has been sufficiently defeated. Boko Haram can
no longer take any territory away from us. And if you look at the
context, about a year ago, Boko Haram had complete control of 20 out of
37 local governments in Borno state. There were about six local
governments in Yobe and about four in Adamawa. If today, Boko Haram is
operating from one or two local governments in the entire country, I
think the military has largely succeeded in wiping out Boko Haram.”he
said
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