Boko Haram: Special Task Force Battalion To Be Established At Sambisa Forest

Maj. Gen. Tukur Buratai, Chief of Army Staff of Nigeria, have revealed plans to establish a Special Task Force Battalion to be located at Sambisa Forest.

Punch news online gathered that the plan was part of efforts to re-organise the Army and take the war to the Boko Haram insurgents.

The planned brigade to be named the 29th Special Task Force Brigade under 7th Division would be saddled with the responsibility of pursuing the insurgents in the vast area.

It would also discourage the insurgents from having territories which they could use to carry out attacks in the Lake Chad Basin area.

“The brigade will be there permanently to go after the insurgents, destroy their stronghold and restore sanity in the area. The troops are very excited about the idea.” a military official says.

However, a security analyst, Ben Okezie, frowned on the planned establishment of a brigade inside Sambisa Forest, saying he did not understand the rationale behind the decision.

According to him, the move was unnecessary since the army has a division in Borno State where the forest is located.

He said the army only needs better strategies to tackle the insurgents.

He also dismissed the relocation of the Command and Control Centre to Maiduguri, saying it might not achieve any result.