{"id":48035,"date":"2016-03-30T23:16:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T22:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=48035"},"modified":"2016-03-30T23:16:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T22:16:55","slug":"minister-denies-saying-boko-haram-holding-two-local-governments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/minister-denies-saying-boko-haram-holding-two-local-governments\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Denies Saying Boko Haram Holding Two Local Governments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459288255261_3729\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459288255261_3744\">\u00a0The Minister of Defence, retired Brig.-Gen. Mansur Dan-Ali, has refuted an online media report credited to him that Boko Haram insurgents were still controlled two local government areas in the North-East.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459288255261_3745\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459288255261_3769\">The minister made this known to the press in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday by Col. Tukur Gusau, Public Relations Officer in his office.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459288255261_3815\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459288255261_3816\" dir=\"ltr\">Ali was quoted to have told the Voice of America, VOA, that\u00a0\u201cWithin one year, the coming of our president has changed the game. Look at what was happening before whereby three states, the whole eastern region, was under the terrorists. Now we may have maybe two local governments,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459288255261_3746\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459288255261_3770\">He also denied reports in the same medium credited to him that the abducted female students of Government Secondary School, Chibok, were being used as suicide bombers.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459288255261_3747\">According to the statement, the minister was quoted out of context, as he did not imply what was reported by the online medium.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459288255261_3748\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459288255261_3771\">\u201cThe minister was a guest in the studio of Voice of America, where he spoke in Hausa language, on the appraisal of the successes recorded in the ongoing war against terrorists in the North- East.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459288255261_3749\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459288255261_3888\">\u201cHe said that before now, over 60 local government areas were under the occupation of Boko Haram in the North-East, but now only two were having some remnants of Boko Haram activities and not under their complete control.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459288255261_3750\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459288255261_3889\">\u201cOn the issue of the Chibok girls, the minister was not referring to the girls abducted on April 14, 2014 from Government Secondary School Chibok.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459288255261_3751\"><\/div>\n<div>\u201cRather, he was referring to other girls abducted by the terrorists from the local government areas and environs,\u2019\u2019 the statement quoted Gusau as saying.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459288255261_3752\" dir=\"ltr\">(NAN)<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459288255261_3890\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459288255261_3891\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The Minister of Defence, retired Brig.-Gen. 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