Reason we are NOW winning against Boko Haram – Presidency explains

The presidency has stated the factors behind the recent string of successes by the multi-national forces in the ongoing operation against Islamic terrorist sect, Boko Haram sect.
On Wednesday, February 25, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe, while speaking with journalists in Abuja, assured Nigerians that the war would soon be won, adding that the deployment of specially trained anti-terrorism combat squad and procurement of sophisticated arms and military hardware were responsible for the victories of the army against the insurgents.

Okupe also cited the recent approval by the African Union and the United Nations for an international coalition to collaborate with Nigeria’s military, saying: “This approval also gives legal authority to our neighbours (Chad, Niger and Cameroon) to lawfully deploy troops on Nigerian soil while our Military can now operate beyond our borders to hunt fleeing terrorists; thus removing their safe haven.”
The Senior Special Assistant also contradicted the recent statement of President Goodluck Jonathan, where he confessed to having underrated the members of the sect, going on to blame the opposition party for distorting the president’s words.

He said: “In the first instance, what President Goodluck Jonathan said in the interview which has been mischievously twisted by the APC was that at the outset of the Boko Haram activities, the group was treated as a local insurgent group in view of the fact that there was scanty information on its global network in training, funding and supply of arms.”
Speaking on, Okupe lambasted the All Progressives Congress, for disemminating misinformation in regards to the amount spent on the war by the Federal Government.

“An example of this disposition to falsehood and outlandish assertions by the APC is the claim by Alhaji Lai Muhammed in his press statement that government had expended a sum of 32 billion dollars (6.5 trillion Naira) on the war against terrorism; a claim which is untrue and lacks any factual basis whatsoever.
“We find it very embarrassing that the APC always desperately seeks to feed on blood like leaches and profit from national tragedies and misfortune.”