Group Says UN Resumption Of Humanitarian Missions In Northeast Is Blow To Boko Haram

The Buhari Media Support Group (BMSG), has described the resumption of humanitarian missions in the North East by the United Nations and its agencies after the Boko Haram attack in Borno state as a big blow to the insurgents.
A statement in Abuja by the Chairman of the Group, Malam Mohammed Labbo and Secretary, Cassidy Madueke, said that the UN decision to resume its laudable humanitarian missions in the Northeast Nigeria is “timely and reassuring for the thousands of the victims of terrorism that were displaced by the Boko Haram attacks.”
The group said that with the UN decision to resume its humanitarian missions in the Northeast, the Boko Haram bandits have been denied the opportunity to claim propaganda victory which they had wanted to achieve by waylaying a UN humanitarian convoy.
“The Boko Haram bandits have been significantly crippled in terms of operational military capabilities.”
The Group said that Boko Haram insurgents attacks on soft targets, including a UN humanitarian mission, is a desperate, last ditch effort to prove that they are still strong, after facing irreversible setbacks.
The Group therefore commended the UN for not playing into the hands of the Boko Haram militants who are desperate to prove that they are still in charge, despite the heavy and irrecoverable losses they have suffered at the hands of the Nigerian armed forces.
According to BMSG, the UN decision to resume its humanitarian missions in the Northeast “was a major defeat for the terrorist propaganda objectives, and this decision would boost the morale of Nigeria’s counterterrorism forces who have conducted this war with dedication, patriotism and remarkable gallantry.”
The Group also commended the sacrifices of Nigeria’s counterterrorism forces, and called on Nigerians to continue to pray for their success against the Boko Haram militants. [myad]