The remark was made by the Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, Major General Lucky Irabor on Wednesday, May 25, 2016 while laying the foundation of a school in Maiduguri, PM News reports.

“I will like to use this opportunity to encourage those of them who have made up their minds to surrender, that now is the time for them to do so, because the olive branch is being offered to them,” Irabor said.

“But where they fail to take the olive branch, they will pay the price for stubbornness. We will ensure that they are uprooted out of the entire area in a short while.

“We are pleased with the socio-economic activities that are returning in the North East, that is what had actually fired us up to ensure that we chase the criminals out of the place,’’ he added.

Irabor also expressed the military’s determination to uproot the terrorists from the entire North East.

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