{"id":114011,"date":"2015-05-05T19:43:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T19:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=114011"},"modified":"2015-05-05T19:44:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T19:44:31","slug":"500-women-rescued-from-boko-haram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=114011","title":{"rendered":"500 women rescued from Boko Haram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nigerian troops have\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/05\/02\/nigerian-army-frees-another-234-women-and-children\/\" target=\"_blank\">freed another 234 women and children<\/a><\/strong><\/span> from Boko Haram\u2019s stronghold in the Sambisa forest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;lMQWfW5kcBblqB8YJTbsOLSjV7zlGWwy&#8221;]This brings to about 500 women and children who have already been rescued in the past few days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Executive Director of Nigerian based counter terrorism and security professionals Network, Oludare Ogunlana, has observed that the successes was due to a renewed effort on the part of President Goodluck Jonathan to fight the menace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Jonathan has come under severe criticism for not doing enough to free the Chibok girls as well as end the six-year-long Boko Haram insurgency that has claimed 13,000 lives and forced at least 1.5 million people to flee their homes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an interview with <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, Oludare Ogunlana praised President Goodluck Jonathan for the achievement, adding that \u201ctowards the tail end of Jonathan\u2019s administration, he decided to motivate the Nigeria military and that is responsible for a lot of achievement they\u2019ve chalked so far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added that Boko Haram\u2019s stronghold in the Sambisa forest have been subdued.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAs am talking to you today, Sambisa forest has been bombarded&#8230;communication lines have been cut to them [Boko Haram]\u2026The terrorist in Nigeria are running helter-skelter, they are already leaving the Sambisa forest because they\u2019ve gone out of food, out logistics and ammunition,\u201d addedd Oludare Ogunlana.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin Akweiteh Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian troops have\u00a0freed another 234 women and children from Boko Haram\u2019s stronghold in the Sambisa forest. 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