Kingsley Nwezeh in Abuja
The military high command yesterday declared that troops have been given the mandate to destroy terror groups and their networks across the country.
This came as troops operating in the North-east rescued another Chibok girl, Lydia Simon, who had been held captive by Boko Haram terrorists for several years.
Lydia, who was on serial number 68 among the abducted missing Chibok Secondary School girls, was rescued along with her three children by troops conducting Operation Desert Sanity III, around Ngoshe in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State.
She was five months pregnant at the time of her rescue, and claimed to be from Pemi town in Chibok.
At a media briefing yesterday in Abuja, the Director Defence Media Operations (DDMO), Maj Gen Edward Buba, said the military was focused on defeating terrorists and their enclaves across the country.
“The prerequisite of ongoing counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations by the military across the country is defeating the terrorist and dismantling their military, administrative and political capabilities.
“Accordingly, through our operations we are continually boxing in the terrorist and dismantling their resupply routes,” he said.
