According to the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar, Boko Haram militancy will soon be a thing of the past as a large number of the sect members are surrundering to the Nigerian military.

Abubakar stated that the terrorist were trapped and had no where to go, hence the reason why most of them are coming forward to surrender.

The Airforce boss said this while speaking with newsmen during the 52nd anniversary of the Nigerian Airforce at Abuja.

He stated that: “I am confident that we are at the tail end of the fight against the insurgency in the North East. Very soon the fight will soon come to an end.

“Looking at where we are coming from, we have done substantially well. With the support of the government and Nigerians, the situation is different from what was happening in 2014 when convoys of vehicles were moving from one place to the other killing innocent Nigerians.

“From intelligence, so many of those guys want to stop fighting, there are people among them who are trapped; there is intelligence that there is a division among the guys fighting.

“What we want to do is that if you want to stop fighting, if you want to stop the killing, you come out, we profile you, so many of them are surrendering. If you surrender, you are not armed, you are not carrying explosives, then the law will take its course. So Many people in very large numbers are surrendering. It is not too early to do so…

“So, we came up with the idea of ‘safe corridor’. If you want to come out, come out and then we profile you, keep you under watch before taking the next step. So many of them are surrendering in large numbers. We have seen that they are surrendering because they know that there is no escape.”

While calling on Nigerians to support the military, Abubakar also stated that the military intelligence was studying the video allegedly released by Boko Haram leader, Ibrahim Shekau

Mazi Emeka