Britain’s Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson praised brave Nigerian Soldiers in the fight against the “numbskulls’ Boko Haram terrorist. He said this as he delivered his keynote speech at the Conservative Party Conference on Tuesday.
He talked of the good Britain is doing in the world right now – for instance in Nigeria, where British troops are training Nigerian forces to defeat "the numbskulls" of the Boko Haram. "But you can't just tackle the problem in Nigeria," he said.
Boris Johnson calls terrorist organisation Boko Haram "numbskulls" pic.twitter.com/2DFPSw0Fdy
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"Those terrorists' AK-47s are being smuggled down through he desert from the chaos of Libya, and in Tripoli I have seen the charred ruins of our embassy – the smashed snooker table and the room where Tony Blair once held a banquet. But I was proud to run that Union Jack up the flagpole and that embassy is being rebuilt."
Boko Haram founded in 2002 initially focused on opposing Western education, launched military operations in 2009 to create Islamic state. It declared a caliphate in areas it controlled 2014. Most of the territories have now been recaptured by the military.
