About 100 bodies were found in Damasak recently recaptured from Boko Haram.
As the tides continue to turn
against the terrorist sect Boko Haram in Nigeria, the rebel group’s
atrocities are more and more discovered in towns Nigerian and allied
Chadian, Nigerien and Cameroonian forces have recaptured from Boko
Haram.
Colonel Azem Bermandoa Agouna, a Chadian
army official, BBC quoted is said to have told news agencies that he
had seen "about 100 bodies spread under a bridge just outside the town
of Damasak". The trading town in Borno State near Niger's border was
recently recaptured from Boko Haram by Nigerien and Chadian forces and
before leaving the town the Boko Haram fighters reportedly killed the
people whose bodies were found some of which had their
throats slit and
others decapitated.
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan
predicted that Boko Haram would lose all territory within a month. “They
are getting weaker and weaker by the day. I'm very hopeful that it will
not take us more than a month to recover the old territories,” he is
quoted to have told the BBC on Friday, March 20, 2015. Military sources
declared last week that two out of three worst-hit northeast states by
Boko Haram; Yobe and Adamawa, have been declared "cleared" while the
third, Borno, is expected to be liberated "soon.” The sources disclosed
that major towns such as Bama and Dikwa are among some 36 localities
recently recaptured, with just three said to be still held by Boko
Haram.
The offensive to recapture all Nigerian
territory from Boko Haram is pursed within the context of preparations
for general elections postponed from February 14, 2015 to the coming
Saturday, March 28, 2015. The war pose a serious security threat to the
presidential and legislative elections. Reports say 14 candidates will
be running for the presidential election though the main two rivals are
incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan of the People’s Democratic Party
(PDP) and the leading opposition All Progressives Congress (APC)
candidate, Muhammadu Buhari. The President of the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC), Attahiru Jega has cleared organizational
fears when he was quoted as saying that "everything humanly possible"
has been done to ensure a free, fair, credible and peaceful vote.
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