Boko Haram elements got a hard knock from the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Tuesday in Abuja.
The army boss accused the fundamentalists of spreading the report of his N130 million properties in Dubai.
Buratai spoke at the Army Headquarters, Abuja on activities lined up for this year’s Nigerian Army Day Celebration (NADCEL 2016).
The theme of the event is “Optimising the capability of the Nigerian Army to meet contemporary security challenges.”
He described those seeking a probe of the N130 million properties in Dubai as “the defeated Boko Haram terrorists who are now hiding behind the internet to continue with their attacks against military institution and government of Nigeria”.
Buratai vowed that the Nigerian Army would pursue the emergent ‘internet terrorists’ to the cyberspace and defeat them.
“I am not supposed to be commenting again on this issue because both the Federal Government and the Army have addressed it. However, what I can say is that we have defeated the terrorists on the land and they have now migrated to the cyberspace.
“But I want to assure that we will follow these Boko Haram that migrated to the cyberspace to wherever they are. We will follow them and defeat them.”
He said Boko Haram had been defeating physically, insisting that the fundamentalists no longer hold grounds in the North-East.
“Let’s be clear about this, no place or territory is being held by these terrorists. And, of course, you know that if terrorists are dislodged from one place, they move to another, even across countries. Right now, we have received reports of these terrorists moving to other areas.
“And when we say that the terrorists have been defeated and not holding any territory, have they come out to debunk it? No, no one has come to tell you that they are holding territory,” he said.
