The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Kenneth Minimah has said the army will soon launch a massive military offensive to end insurgency in the North-East.

Minimah made
this known when he addressed troops of 2 Brigade
Port Harcourt at a two-day visit to army formations
and units in Rivers on Sunday, 24 August, 2014.
According to him, military hardware’s will soon
arrive into the country in furtherance of the Federal
Government resolve to end Boko Haram activities.
“The equipments ordered by the Federal
Government will soon be coming into the nation’s
shores in a few weeks time.
“As soon as the equipments come in, we will
launch a major offensive toward ending this
madness of insurgency in the North-East of the
country,” he said.
Minimah said that under President Goodluck
Jonathan, the army had witnessed significant
improvement in personnel welfare and institutional
capacity to confront the nation’s security
challenges.
He said that efforts were also being made to
reduce oil theft in the Niger Delta in response to
new techniques devised by oil thieves to sabotage
the nation’s economy.
“We cannot say we will completely stamp out oil
theft in one day, but then the greater act in
pursuing oil thieves is ongoing, and we will see
greater result with time,” he said.
Minimah, who also inaugurated six blocks of 28
flats, and a block of five flats officers’ quarters built
by the 2 Brigade, said the project would reduce
accommodation deficit in the barrack.
He commended the Commanding Officer of the 29
Battalion, Lt.-Col. Olusegun Oladuntoye, for
building an ultra-modern state-of-the-art Quarter
Guard for the brigade.
The leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, also
on Sunday released a video where he claimed the
insurgent group has taken over Gwoza town in
Borno state.
The Islamist sect has staged series of attack in the
southern city of Borno lately killing hundreds of
people and displacing thousands of others from
their villages to neighbouring towns.