Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has said Boko Haram is no longer a serious fighting force, in spite of the recent abduction of schoolgirls in Dapchi by members of the group.
The terror group abducted 110 schoolgirls from Government Science and Technical Girls College, Dapchi on 19 February; and last week killed UN’s aid workers in Rann area of Borno state.
But the vice president said the aforementioned incidents did not mean the President Muhammadu Buhari administration had failed with regard to security.
Osinbajo was speaking at the opening of the Eighth National Security Seminar 2018 in Abuja.
“Today’s enemies, loosely-structured non-state actors, sometimes faceless, choose to mutate,” he said.
“They will alter their goals and objectives at random, and are capable of doing anything and everything to continue feeding off the oxygen of media attention.
“Yet, this should not be interpreted as meaning that we are fighting an unwinnable war.
“We can boldly say that today, Boko Haram is no longer a serious fighting force.”
