The North-East Governors meet on Tuesday in a bid to find a lasting solution to the 10-year-old insurgency in the region.
At the meeting held in Damaturu, Yobe, the governors reiterated their commitment to ending the insurgency that had killed 350,000 people and displaced more than three million since 2011.
In his address at the opening of the Forum’s sixth meeting in the Yobe State capital, the Chairman of the Forum, Zulum said the governors would do everything possible to see that people go about their businesses unhindered in the region.
He said through the strategic collaboration between the Forum and the military, thousands of insurgents had laid down their arms and surrendered to the military.
The governor said: “Recent developments seem to indicate that we have reached the beginning of an end of Boko Haram insurgency.
“That explains why the terrorists have been coming out of their enclaves to surrender.
“The situation is overwhelming in its scope and it’s gratifying in its impact.
“After sufficient consultation with the military and other agencies, we came up with strategic initiatives to exploit the situation.
“We deliberately made the insurgents feel that surrendering was the only cause of action available to them in the face of devastating onslaught by troops
