Nigeria is finally free of Boko Haram terror group. President Mihammadu Buhari said the extremist organization has been completely crushed and has been driven out from its last forest enclave.
In the victorious statement on Saturday the president said Boko Haram fighters are on the run and have no place to hide now.
Meanwhile, the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq, also known as ISIS, has taken credit of a successful attack on an army barracks in Yobe, the northeastern state of the country, leaving many dead and injured.
Boko Haram is allied to ISIS.
It is learned the barrack attack took place on Thursday and on the same day Nigerian president said army has finally defeated Boko Haram in its Sambisa Forest stronghold in neighboring Borno state.
The attack may be an indication from ISIS the existence of terror group has not ended in Nigeria even though Buhari has made an official announcement and soon deadly suicide bombings, village attacks and assaults on military outposts could be seen.
Several reports claim the Islamic extremist group is regrouping in Taraba and Bauchi states, which are south of the Borno state.
It is also reported the regrouping fighters will be taking advantage of long running conflict between Muslim nomadic cattle herders and sedentary Christian farmers in central Nigeria.
In 2014 the Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 teenaged school girls from a boarding school in Chibok and was believed to have been holding them in the Sambisa Forest.
In this context Buhari said in his announcement, “Further efforts should be intensified to locate and free our remaining Chibok girls still in captivity. May God be with them.”
