{"id":4485,"date":"2015-03-07T07:51:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T07:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4485"},"modified":"2015-03-07T07:51:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T07:51:59","slug":"army-reveals-why-shekau-hasnt-been-forcefully-captured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4485","title":{"rendered":"Army Reveals Why Shekau Hasn’t Been Forcefully Captured"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
The Nigerian Chief Of Defense Staff has revealed why the military have not carried out an aerial bombardment of Boko Haram Leader, Abubakar Shekau\u2019s hideout.<\/div>\n
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According to the Nation, troops have not stormed\u00a0Shekau\u2019s hideout because the sect is using the Chibok girls as shield.<\/p>\n

Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh,\u00a0on Wednesday\u00a0visited Chad to seek clarifications on some issues and map out plans with multi-national force on what a source described as the final onslaught against Boko Haram.<\/p>\n

The military source, who spoke in confidence with The Nation, said Shekau and some members of his Shura Committee \u2013 the sect\u2019s highest policy making body had been shuttling between\u00a0 Sambisa Forest and strategic locations, such as Gwoza and Bama.<\/p>\n

The Chadian President, Idris Deby said Shekau\u2019s convoy was sighted in Dikwa\u00a0on Tuesday. But the military source explained that Shekau has a strong base in Gwoza with a special armoured tank.<\/p>\n

The source said: \u201cTroops have located what I may call Shekau\u2019s bunker but they cannot strike because some of the Chibok girls are being used as shield by the leaders of Boko Haram.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to do a clinical job with limited damage because the whole world is awaiting the safe return of the Chibok girls.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201c The ability of the troops to rescue some of the girls will earn more credit to the success of Nigerian military against the insurgents.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are also being extremely careful to avoid any military assault which may force Shekau to turn against the Chibok girls and other hostages in Boko Haram\u2019s camps in the Northeast.<\/em><\/p>\n

According to the source, intelligence report has indicated that recent bombings in Jos and other cities were borne out of anger against the military for reclaiming over 40 occupied territories and killing more than 300 insurgents.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Air Marshal Badeh\u00a0on Wednesday\u00a0met with the Chadian military hierarchy.<\/p>\n

A source, who spoke in confidence,\u00a0said: \u201c The session was used to iron out alleged claims by Chadian military that Nigerian troops were frustrating its collaborating troops in the Northeast.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAt the meeting, the Chadian military denied issuing such statement. Instead, it restated its commitment to collaboration with Nigeria to rout out the insurgents from the Northeast and the sub-region.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAfter ironing out the misgivings, the CDS and Chadian counterpart later mapped out plans with the multi-national force on the final onslaught against Boko Haram.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are likely to see enhanced synergy between Nigerian troops and their Chadian counterparts in the next few days.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

It will be recalled that in a recent interview, President Goodluck Jonathan revealed the status of the captured chibok girls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Nigerian Chief Of Defense Staff has revealed why the military have not carried out an aerial bombardment of Boko Haram Leader, Abubakar Shekau\u2019s hideout. According to the Nation, troops have not stormed\u00a0Shekau\u2019s hideout because the sect is using the Chibok girls as shield. Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh,\u00a0on Wednesday\u00a0visited Chad to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shekau.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1al","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4487,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions\/4487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}