Visit Boko Haram zones, Lai Mohammed dares Fayose

Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture on Wednesday during an interactive session with journalists in Lagos indirectly challenged Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose to visit the north-eastern parts of Nigeria where the war on terror is ongoing.

A few days ago, the Ekiti governor had challenged Mohammed, whom he told to visit the Sambisa Forest, which is regarded as a stronghold of the sect.

Fayose had said, ''Nigerians will only take the minister serious if he relocates to either Sambisa in Borno State or to Yobe State and stay there till the end of March, next year, without heavy military security.''

But the minister said, ''The armchair critics, who dispute these facts from the comfort of their living rooms, are free to take a trip to the theatre of war to see things for themselves. Perhaps then, they will be more circumspect in issuing reckless statements that give nothing but succour to Boko Haram. I have gone to the theatre of war to see things for myself. I did not just stop in Maiduguri; I went all the way to Konduga, Kaure and Bama which, as I said, was once the headquarters of the Boko Haram caliphate.''