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COAS Buratai Gives Army 40-day Ultimatum to Capture Boko Haram Leader, Abubakar Shekau

Farouk Mohammed
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Published: July 22, 2017
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The Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen Tukur Buratai, has given Maj-Gen Ibrahim Attahiru, theatre commander of operation LAFIYA DOLE, a 40-day ultimatum to capture Abubakar Shekau, leader of Boko Haram.

According to Sani Usman, the army spokesman, Buratai directed Attahiru to use everything at his disposal to find Shekau.

“Today, Friday 21st July, 2017, the Chief of Army Staff, Nigerian army, Lieutenant-General Tukur Yusufu Buratai, has directed the theatre commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, Major-General Ibrahim Attahiru, to capture Abubakar Shekau, the so-called and self-styled leader of Boko Haram terrorist group, dead or alive,” it read.

“The theatre commander has further been directed to do so within 40 days.

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“He is to employ all arsenal at the disposal of the theatre command to smoke out Shekau wherever he is hiding in Nigeria.

“The general public is please requested to also assist and volunteer information that would lead to the accomplishment of this task.”

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