The Defence Headquarters on Friday said it has intensified intelligence gathering efforts to ensure there are no hiding places for terrorists.
This comes as a Dutch think-tank, Clingendael Institute, said jihad fighters from the Sahel region had crossed into Nigeria through the Benin Republic border.
The organisation in a report on Wednesday stated that the extremists had settled in Kainji Lake National Park in Niger and Kebbi states, adding that banditry is re-emerging in zones controlled by a militant jihadist organisation in Benin, the Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin.
However, in a statement on Friday, the Director, Defence Media Operations, Edward Buba, noted that the military had re-strategised to enable it to smoke out the terrorists wherever they were hiding and kill them.
The statement read, “The Armed Forces have intensified intelligence collection efforts targeted at hunting terrorists and striking them where they may be hiding and hibernating.
