Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant Kenneth Minimah, has categorically stated that media reports making the rounds that military operations in the Sambisa forest in Borno State have been stopped due to deadly mines planted by the Boko Haram insurgents are false.
Briefing reporters during the commissioning of the Nigerian Army Peacekeeping Medical Centre in Kaduna State on Monday, General Minimah insisted that the military had neither retreated nor stopped the onslaught against the Boko Haram terrorists in Sambisa forest or other parts of the north-east.
The Chief of Army Staff said that the assault on terrorists in Sambisa forest was still on, as more troops and equipment have been deployed to enhance the speedy operation to flush out the terrorists from their last known stronghold.
Before he commissioned the Medical Centre, the Army Chief expressed optimism that the facility would enhance the status of the Peacekeeping Centre, making it a ‘centre of excellence’.
He, therefore, called on the personnel to make judicious use of the medical facility.
On his part, the German Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Michael Zenner, explained that the decision by his country to donate the medical centre to the Nigerian Army was due to the bilateral relations between Germany and Nigeria especially in the areas of military support.
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