Military capable of tackling insurgency – Shettima

The Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, on Friday said the Nigerian military has the capacity to tackle the insurgency spearheaded by the Boko Haram sect.
Shettima said given the feats both within and outside the country, he was in no doubt about the military had the capability of crushing Boko Haram.
Speaking in a statewide broadcast on Friday, the governor sympathised with the residents of the state over the recent Boko Haram attacks in Bama and other parts of the state.
He solicited the cooperation of residents of the state and urged them to exercise more restraint and understanding as both the state and federal governments were doing all within their powers to contain the insurgency.
He said: “In recent days and weeks, we have come under renewed and augmented attacks waged against all of us by an armed minority that seeks to impose on us, a doctrine that is completely at variance with the religion of Islam which they claim to promote; a doctrine that negates the dignity and existence of humanity on earth, despite Allah’s decree in the glorious Quran, that He has dignified the human creature, prohibited unjust killings and made the religion of Islam that which does not sanction compulsion in a multi-faith society like ours.
“Several innocent communities in Gwoza, Damboa, Askira/Uba, Marte, Chibok, Konduga, Dikwa and the most recent, Bama, have had young and old, among them children, weak old men and women, killed in cold blood, their homes destroyed and thousands forced to flee, with some trekking over hurtful distances to become refugees within and outside Borno State.
“Our capital city of Maiduguri is today facing a heavy influx of refugees from the local government areas in Borno.
“Borno citizens have been forced to take refuge in parts of Gombe and Adamawa states mainly on account of man’s inhumanity to his fellow man in the gratuitous name of religion.
“These acts are absolutely condemnable in the strongest of terms.”