We Will Track Chibok's Girl - Lai Mohammed

Lai Mohammed, the minister of information and culture, has restated the commitment of the federal government to track the location of the missing Chibok girls.

FG vowed to track the missing Chibok girls

The minister said that the military has to adopt less lethal method in the fight against compared with the drastic measures used by neigbouring countries along the dreaded Sambisa Forest.
Mohammed noted that Nigerians should provide the military with useful information of suspicious activities in their neighbourhood  that will help to flush Boko Haram.
He made this comment while answering questions during current affairs on Channels TV, saying: “We are a bit constrained. I know that some countries have set certain fire around the Sambisa forest in order to smoke out the Boko Haram insurgents but we are being careful because we are still looking for the Chibok girls and we do not want unnecessary collateral casualties.
“I know that many of our neighbours like Mali and Niger have employed certain procedures because of our major objective that we are still looking for the Chibok girls, so in some parts of Sambisa forest, we cannot adopt such drastic approaches.”
Mohammed explained that prior to the assumption of the current administration the entire northeast was almost taken by the Boko Haram sect.
“People must own the war. They must report suspicious movements and complement efforts of the military. How many bars or football viewing centres in Lagos can you secure? No, but if you have enough information to beef up the security, it would help.
“That is absolutely incorrect. It is possible for insurgents to lay ambush on the road. It doesn’t mean that they are in control of those local governments. I travelled 89 kilometres from Maiduguri to Bama.
“We are not saying we are going to route or eliminate ambush or attacks overnight. It’s never done in any insurgency but what we are just giving the fact, less than a year ago, the entire north east was almost in their control, today they don’t have that kind of command. It’s just about one local government that they have swayed at all,” the Minister said.