The national security adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki, has declared that Nigerian troops prosecuting the Boko Haram war in the North-East will rescue the 219 Chibok schoolgirls and other Nigerians being held by the insurgents before the May 29 handover date.
Dasuki, who gave the assurance during a media chat to commemorate the first anniversary of the girls, also revealed that troops would invade the Sambisa Forest in Borno State before the swearing-in of the president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari.
The NSA noted that the federal government was
making all the necessary efforts to ensure that the girls, along with other Nigerians abducted by the terrorists, were rescued, saying that every movement of the terrorists was being monitored.
“Right now, all Boko Haram camps, except Sambisa Forest, have been destroyed. Every movement of the terrorists is being monitored and every necessary detail is being taken care of to rid the country of the last bastion of terrorists’ infestation,” he said.
“Aside the Chibok girls, other Nigerian girls, boys, men and women were abducted by the terrorists and all efforts are being made to rescue them all.”
He claimed that Sambisa Forest would have since been liberated but for the unfavourable weather condition prevailing in the area, as reconnaissance activities and deployment of troops had been made.
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