President Goodluck Jonathan has said that Nigeria’s troops will defeat Boko Haram within a month.
‘We’ll defeat Boko Haram in a month,’ President says
President Goodluck Jonathan also said that the terrorist sect is “getting weaker and weaker by the day.”
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Jonathan also said that the terrorist sect is “getting weaker and weaker by the day.”
"I'm very hopeful that it will not take us more than a month to recover the old territories that hitherto have been in their [Boko Haram's] hands,” the President said in an interview with BBC.
Jonathan also stated that security agents would continue to search for the abducted Chibok girls.
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The missing girls were kidnapped on April 14, 2014, and most of them remain in captivity.
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