The Director General of the State Security Service (SSS), Ita Ekpeyong, has declared that the service and other security forces were gradually wiping out the Boko Haram insurgents in the country.
Ekpeyong made this disclosure in Lagos during the weekend at the official passing out parade and commissioning of 385 new officers of the service.
According to him, “We can confidently say that we have decimated the terrorists’ top and middle level leadership, its foot soldiers, thereby dislodging its centre of gravity.”
He added that, “ There is no doubt that our strategies have invariably affected the cohesion of the group as well as the chain of command, to the level that the group, for now does not possess the capacity to direct and launch simultaneous attacks on several cities/targets in Nigeria as had been the situation in the past two years.
“We intend to build and consolidate on our successes in this war against the terrorists in order to create a conducive environment for democracy and development,” Ekpeyong said
Addressing the new officer, the SSS boss said, “With the passing out and formal commissioning of these cadets, the Service has added to her pool, a crop of officers who have been trained to be loyal, dedicated and committed to the nation and the ideals of the Service.”
President Goodluck Jonathan, who was represented at the occasion by the Minister of Education , Nyeson Wike, stated that the Federal Government has in the last three years spent over one billion naira on training and retraining of officers of the SSS.
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