Sambisa Forest same size as Belgium, makes rescue operations difficult — Christopher Musa

The Minister of Defence, General Christopher Musa (retd.), says the immense size of the Sambisa Forest is making it hard for information forces to rapidly rescue radical kidnapped by terrorists.

Musa made this known during an interrogation connected Channels Television’s Politics Today, wherever helium spoke astir the government’s efforts to tackle coercion and kidnapping.

According to him, information agencies person rescued galore abducted Nigerians, but kidnappers often flight into ample wood areas earlier troops tin find them.

“Few ones now, efforts person been made. If you notice, connected a regular ground now, we are truly getting, rescuing a batch of them,” Musa said.

“So this authorities is overwhelmed. Sambisa Forest is arsenic large arsenic Belgium, arsenic a country. So erstwhile radical speech astir this, they marque it look arsenic if it is 1 tiny shot tract and we are refusing to bash anything.”

The curate explained that the size and hard terrain of the wood springiness terrorists an vantage aft carrying retired attacks.

He said kidnappers tin vanish into the bush earlier information agencies person accusation astir an abduction, making it harder for troops to find their nonstop location.

“These places are monolithic areas. The wood wrong Kwara comes successful from Burkina Faso to Benin Republic into Nigeria and flows thr...