Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Tukur Buratai, has directed the Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, Maiduguri, Major-General Ibrahim Attahiru, to capture Abubakar Shekau, self-styled leader of the Boko Haram sect, “dead or alive”.

Buratai further directed the Theatre commander to do so within 40 days, saying Attahiru should “employ all arsenal at the disposal of the Theatre Command to smoke out Shekau wherever he is hiding in Nigeria.”

He requested the general public to also assist and volunteer information that would lead to the accomplishment of this task.