President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday said his government was determined to liberate all territories presently occupied by the Islamic militant group, Boko Haram.
Jonathan made this comment through his representative, Mohammed Wakil, in Maiduguri during the commencement of the Presidential Initiative for the North East.
He said the Federal Government would deploy all necessary resources to liberate all territories occupied by Boko Haram insurgents.
Re-echoing the words of the Chief of Army Staff, the President declared that the armed forces was mobilising human and material resources to reclaim lost territories and working on plans for the rehabilitation, reconstruction and redevelopment of the insurgency-ravaged North East region.
He added that his administration was determined to tackle and defeat the insurgency at all cost, noting that the Federal Government’s agenda for the North East extends beyond ongoing military actions to measures designed to provide short, medium and long term solutions to the overall challenges facing the region.
He listed non- military interventions to include the Presidential Initiatives for the North East headed by the National Security Adviser; the Presidential Committee on the Distribution of Relief Materials headed by the NEMA Director General, Mallam Sani Sidi; Victims Support Fund chaired by former Defence Minister, Lt General T.Y.Danjuma ; and Safe School Initiative coordinated by the Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr Okonjo Iweala.
