See the Plan Chadian President Has For Boko Haram Insurgents by the End of the Year

 

Chadian President Idriss Deby has expressed great optimism that Boko Haram insurgency will be a thing of he past by the end of 2015.

 

President Deby said the combined effort by the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) has succeeded in ‘decapitating’ the terrorists, adding that “the group would be wrapped up by the end of the year.”

 

While addressing reporters in N’Djamena, the capital city, on the 55th anniversary of Chad’s independence from France, the President also informed that the terrorists have picked  Mahamat Daoud as their new leader.

  

Deby said: “Boko Haram is decapitated. There are little groups (of Boko Haram members) scattered throughout east Nigeria, on the border with Cameroon. It is within our power to definitively overcome Boko Haram.

 

He added that the 10,000 MNJTF strong force put together by the Chad Basin countries of Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon and Republic of Benin has a mandate to end Boko Haram’s bloody six-year insurgency.

 

According to the Chadian leader, the force would be “operational in a few days”.

 

Deby further claimed that Boko Haram was no longer led by the fearsome Abubakar Shekau and that his successor was open to talks.

 

He said: “There is someone apparently called Mahamat Daoud who is said to have replaced Abubakar Shekau and he wants to negotiate with the Nigerian government.

“For my part, I would advise not to negotiate with a terrorist,” Deby, whose country has been spearheading the regional anti-Boko Haram fight, said.

 

While claiming progress in the fight against the terrorists, who have repeatedly hit border areas of Cameroon, Chad and Niger, and wrought havoc in northeast Nigeria, Deby admitted that suicide bombers still posed a threat.