Boko Haram: US envoy, Mark discuss strategies

Senate President, David Mark

Senate President, David Mark, and the American Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle, met on Saturday in Abuja to discuss fresh strategies being adopted by the military in the fight against insurgency by the Boko Haram sect.

The meeting fixated on how the cooperation between Nigeria and the United States on how to invigorate action against Boko Haram and bring the activities of the militants to a terminus.

A verbalization by the Chief Press Secretary to the Senate President, Mr . Paul Mumeh, expounded that Mark and Entwistle lamented the countless number of lives and property already lost on account of terrorism by the dreaded sect.

They withal noted with regret the economic and socio-political lives of the nation that had been on the low ebb since the dreaded sect launched its destructive actions on the country.

Mark, according to the verbalization, concretely pointed out that “Boko Haram is not only a threat to Nigeria but poses a great hazard to human subsistence.”

He verbally expressed, “The threat is much more more proximate than was ever imagined because the extremists have wider networks and support outside Nigeria.”

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