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| Gen. Yakubu Gowon |
Former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, on Tuesday stated categorically that the war against the Boko Haram insurgency may not end by December as being planned by the Federal Government because nobody could really talk about when any particular operation was going to end.
Though the former Head of State expressed confidence in the military’s renewed efforts in flushing out insurgency in the country, he noted that it was out of place for someone to say it would end in particular period.
Gowon therefore faulted the presidency on the deadline given to the military to end the Boko Haram insurgency, saying that from past experiences no one should be certain when such insurgency would end.
He however urged Nigerians to use prayers as an alternative and effective weapon to defeat Boko Haram, which is capable of changing the hearts and minds of the insurgents.
General Gowon, who spoke in Abakaliki shortly after an advocacy visit to the Ebonyi State Governor, Chief Dave Umahi , on a roll back malaria programme, enthused that with the present strategies adopted by the military in the fight, the insurgency might soon be flushed out.
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