Boko Haram is struggling to remain relevant—Lai Mohammed

Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, has described the wave of suicide bombings and attacks on soft targets by Boko Haram, lately as actions of hungry and desperate terrorists.

Lai Mohammed while speaking at a press briefing in Abuja, yesterday, said Boko Haram sect members were not only venting the anger of their hunger and desperation on soft targets but also trying to demonstrate that they were still relevant.

He also revealed a document that came in from the United Nations indicated which said that the body has released a sum of $58 million to assist 2.4 million people affected by Boko Haram-related violence from March 2015 to February 4, 2016.

In other development, Borno State government, yesterday, have defied the protest of donor agencies’ and have started the relocation of Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, from public schools to resettlement camps to allow for the resumption of students, after the schools were closed due to Boko Haram insurgency in March, 2014.

Their protest was expressed through a representative from the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF, known as Mr. Victor, who said to the committee that the donor agencies “are dissatisfied with the arrangements.”