Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, is
racing against time to meet the target set for him
by President Muhammadu Buhari to crush the
dreaded Boko Haram insurgents. He, and by
extension, the military, has only 63 days from
today to meet that target which has been
considered by many as Herculean.
In a move to prove is mettle, Gen. Buratai, on
Wednesday, at the Maimalari Cantonment Youth
Centre, Maiduguri, the Borno State capital,
declared 100 members of the notorious sect
wanted. At the occasion, the Army chief
presented to the Nigerian public a poster
displaying the faces of the wanted terrorists. Of
the 100 photos on the poster, most of them are
teenagers, with only three above the age of 70
years. Attached to each of the terrorist is a
number with which they could be identified. Gen.
Buratai also reeled out three mobile telephone
numbers where information as to their
whereabouts could be communicated, assuring
such informants of total secrecy and protection.
Of interest is the character tagged No 100 in the
poster, whose photograph dwarfed every other
ones. If one’s eye is still to be believed, the man
tagged No 100 is the acclaimed leader of the
group, Abubakar Shekau.
It is unbelievable to see that Gen. Buratai
included Shekau in the list of wanted terrorists
after all the noise of his death time and time
again. So, Shekau is alive after all. If that is the
case, then the Nigerian public deserves
unreserved apology from the military which had
fed them lies that Shekau had long been
‘dispatched.’ With this latest move, it is sure that
the new crop of military chiefs are determined to
bring an end to insurgency in the country.
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