His victorious statement came as the Islamic State group, with which one faction of Boko Haram is allied, claimed a successful attack on an army barracks in northeast Nigeria’s Yobe state “killed and wounded many.” The communique on social media said the attack took place Thursday, the same day President Muhammadu Buhari said troops defeated Boko Haram in its Sambisa Forest stronghold in neighbouring Borno state. “I want to use this opportunity to commend the determination, courage and resilience of troops of Operation Lafiya Dole at finally entering and crushing the remnants of the Boko Haram insurgents at “Camp Zero”, which is located deep within the heart of Sambisa Forest” Buhari stated further. The president who said he received the news of the crushing of the Boko Haram camp in the dreaded forest by the Chief of Army Staff at about 1:35pm on Friday, December 22 noted that with the defeat of the terrorists, “the terrorists are on the run, and no longer have a place to hide”. In his goodwill message to officers and soldiers of the Operation Lafiya Dole, President Buhari urged the military to ensure that efforts were intensified “to locate and free our remaining Chibok girls still in captivity.
President Muhammadu Buhari announces that the Nigerian Armed Forces have successfully driven out Boko Haram militants from their last stronghold in the Sambisa Forest in northeastern Nigeria.