Nigeria and the international community has been severally assured by the Muhammadu Buhari government that Boko Haram has been “technically defeated”. But the senator representing Borno Central in the National Assembly and a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Baba Kaka Garbai, has revealed that his state is divided in equal measure between the terror sect and the Nigerian military.
However, his assertion has been disputed by the military and Senate Leader Mohammed Ndume, who said yesterday that a lot has been achieved by the military in retrieving captured Borno communities from the insurgents.
Garbai, who spoke to journalists on Saturday evening during a condolence visit to Dalori village where 65 persons were reportedly killed weekend before last by the insurgents, said the truth must be told that both Boko Haram and the Nigerian nation each have full control of three local governments in the troubled Borno State and both have a level of dominance in 21 other local councils.
Garbai, who arrived Dalori with financial and material assistance for the people of the village, said: “I feel highly demoralised, devastated in the sense that this is the village we visited during the election and they were going about their normal business. The activities that were ongoing were like confidence building.
“They actually got the signal a few days before the attack that the insurgents were likely to attack them, they reported this to the constituted authorities but nothing was done to provide security for residents and their belongings.”
The senator appealed to the military to intensify its efforts at beefing up security around villages and communities that share borders with Maiduguri metropolis.
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