Nigerian Army says the outlawed Boko Haram group will be punished for killing 40 of the Chibok girls in their custody.

Theatre Commander of the counter-insurgency war, Operation Lafiya Dole, Major General Lucky Irabor, who made the vow, told a news conference that the days of the Boko Haram insurgents were numbered.

Irabor was reacting to claims by a faction of the terrorist group in a recent video that 40 out of the over 200 girls they seized from a school in Chibok community of Borno State had died from airstrikes in the Lafiya Dole Operations.

According to him, Airstrikes are not AK47 rifles, it’s only a matter of common sense that those dead bodies shown on the ground there do not even give indication as to the claim which Boko Haram gave.

He said the ammunition was part of the equipment the command had received lately and hinted that more sophisticated machines were still being expected.

General Irabor explained that they would detect remnants of improvised explosive devices left in farmlands and towns by the fleeing insurgents.