The Nigerian Senate has asked Service Chiefs to
ensure that territories seized by the Boko Haram
terrorist group are recaptured before the 2015
general elections.
At a meeting with the Chief of Army Staff (COAS),
Lieutenant General Kenneth Minimah, on
Thursday, the Senate Committee on Defence and
Army expressed worries that elections may not
hold in the troubled north eastern states in 2015
because of terrorist activities in the states.
The chairman of the committee, Senator George
Sekibo, said elections would hold in the three
troubled north eastern states if the army
recaptured all the territories seized by Boko
Haram and if there was peace in the areas.
The committee invited Lieutenant General
Minimah, to discuss the increasing insurgency in
the north-eastern states – Adamawa, Borno and
Yobe.
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