BOKO HARAM: Military Begins Battle To Recapture Mubi.... As NLC says... We believe in their capacity and resolve to get done the job of containing the insurgents.“We acknowledge that this is not a regular war.

When the negotiation began between Boko Haram insurgents and the Federal Govt, on the release of the Chibok girls, the opposition cried wolf and alleged the presidency of playing politics with the release of the girls in order to score cheap popularity and enhance the president's second term ambition. They alleged that, the President was delaying the release of the girls to coincide with his declaration bid. But as it is today, it is obvious to the opposition and all observers that such allegations are unfounded and far from the truth as things has deterioriated since the insurgents captured more villages in Adamawa, maiduguri and Yobe

The military authorities have commenced a major offensive designed to recapture lost territories to the fighters of Boko Haram Islamic sect.Investigations revealed that the military operation started on Sunday evening with massive deployment of troops to the operational areas in Adamawa State, especially the Mararaba, Madagali and Mubi axis, where the activities of the Boko Haram insurgents had been prominent.
A source, who confided in our correspondent, said that the troops who were strategically deployed to lock down the city now said to be under siege, were advancing, It was gathered that the comprehensive operation,led by the troops of the Nigerian Army, also involved the anti-riot policemen deployed from Yola, Benin and Makurdi and members of the local vigilante in the area.

The source said that the operation would characterise infantry action by the ground troops, the use of teargas by the police and the members of the local vigilante reputed to have a fair knowledge of the area.It was further stated that the communication within Mubi and other areas under occupation by the Boko Haram had become quite difficult as the insurgents had cut off all the GSM masts in the commercial city and its environs.
It was stated that the even though the insurgents had not pulled down or destroyed any of the masts; they had cut energy supply to them.The source said, "The operation started last night.It is tagged, 'Operation no Mercy.' By now, the soldiers should be in Mararaba and Mubi, because there is no service; the service has been cut off."Two days before the commencement of this operation on Saturday, many people fled the area in order not to get caught in the crossfire.
Since Sunday, everybody ran out of the place as soldiers encircled the whole place."Many of the Boko Haram boys are people from the town. Many of the boys can be identified. So, the local vigilantes are also entering together with the military.

"The Air Force surveyed the place, but they left the ground troops to do their jobs."The network inside Mubi is down. They cut the network, put off the generator but the masts are not destroyed."Mobile policemen are also involved in the fight; some of them were drawn from Mopol 14 in Yola.
Some came from Makurdi and Benin. The Mopol are expected to be using teargas…," the source explained.Meanwhile, the Nigeria Labour Congress has said that it has confidence in the capacity of the troops of the Nigerian Army to contain the threat posed by the Boko Haram to national security, even as it raised the alarm at the rate at which thecountry had lost territories to the insurgents.
The General Secretary of the NLC, Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, said in an electronic mail on Monday that about half of the North-East was under the control of the insurgents, a situation he described as sad.He recalled that the soldiers took an oath to defend the territorial integrity of the country, which he noted, was now being desecrated with killings of the innocents in the country.Ozo-Eson, who urged the military to liberate the occupied territories, said that it was the belief of the NLC that the current setbacks suffered by the military were temporary and could be remedied.
"We are alarmed at the rate the nation is losing grounds in the war against the Boko Haram insurgents. We stand by our security forces in these trying times in their engagement with Boko Haram insurgents.
We believe in their capacity and resolve to get done the job of containing the insurgents."We acknowledge that this is not a regular war. We appreciate other challenges of our security forces among which are logistics, numbers, indiscipline, motivation and others," he said.