This should be positive news to well-meaning Nigerians. By the way, I like hearing positive news about the country in the midst of the over-orchestrated negativity!
But as I commented on Facebook earlier today, why did Sahara Reporters have to put "more terrorists" in quotation marks? Are Boko Haram fighters no longer terrorists? Every positive piece of news does not have to have a negative spin!
It is not good enough to criticize the troops indiscriminately and shed crocodile tears when Boko Haram kill or capture them!
'More Terrorists' Killed In Sambisa And Gwoza Air Campaign, Nigerian Army Says; No Information On Civilians
"The air strikes which today targeted the training camps and logistics dumps of the terrorists in Sambisa forests and parts of Gwoza have been highly successful achieving their aims with required precision," he said, adding that casualty details will be determined in subsequent phases of the operation.
The Nigeria Army has reported the death of a large number of terrorists in Sambisa and Gwoza following the ongoing air campaign by the Air Force "to clear terrorists from all their enclaves".
"Many others are also scampering all over the forest and out of the struck bases," Major General Chris Olukolade, Director Defence Information, said in a press statement.
"The air strikes which today targeted the training camps and logistics dumps of the terrorists in Sambisa forests and parts of Gwoza have been highly successful achieving their aims with required precision," he said, adding that casualty details will be determined in subsequent phases of the operation.
He further stated that the strikes were continuing in other locations in advance of ground troops and other elements of the mission.
Analysts and human rights observers fear that wholesale bombing of villages and communities may be ongoing in the area in the campaign to "clear terrorists from all their enclaves", with the Nigerian Army lacking information or uninterested in how many civilians may have been killed or wounded.
G. Ugo Nwokeji
Director, Center for African Studies
Associate Professor of African American Studies
University of California, Berkeley
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Berkeley, CA 94720
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