The Chief of Army Staff, Nigerian Army, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai, on Friday in a terse statement, directed the Theatre Commander, Operation LAFIYA DOLE, Major General Ibrahim Attahiru, to capture Abubakar Shekau, the so-called and self-styled leader of Boko Haram terrorists group, dead or alive.
“The Theatre Commander has further been directed to do so within 40 days,” Brigadier General Sani Kukasheka Usman, Director Army Public Relations who signed the statement on Friday evening said.
“He is to employ all arsenal at the disposal of the Theatre Command to smoke out Shekau wherever he is hiding in Nigeria,” Usman further said on the directive while urging the general public is please requested to also assist and volunteer information that would lead to the accomplishment of the capture of Shekau.