President Buhari Mahammadu had earlier claimed that the terrorist group Boko Haram no longer holds any major territories, in the North-East , at least the insurgents are occupying eight out of 10 local government areas in the northern part of Borno State.
Ahmadu Joha, a lawmaker of All Progressives Congress representing Damboa-Gwoza-Chibok said on Tuesday during a plenary session of the house of representatives while speaking on the need for the security agency to be fully funded.
" A number of geographical location in Borno state and other affected areas are still under the yoke of Boko Haram, for instance in a local government that has 13 electoral wards like Gwoza which I'm representing only 3 or 4 is not been occupied by the group, also in Chibok and Damboa there are 10 electoral wards each, in Chibok two are not occupied by Boko Haran and one is also not occupied in Damboa, totally that out of 33 electoral wards only six or seven wards can be tagged territories free.
He also added that out of the 10 local government areas in northern Borno only two are not in control of Boko Haram