A journalist with links to the Boko Haram sect, Ahmad Salkida, has revealed that, contrary to reports that the Sambisa Forest was the last stronghold of vioelent Islamic sect Boko Haram and that the Nigerian Army had wiped them out, the group still controls vast swaths of North-eastern Nigeria.
Salkida took to his Twitter handle, contradicting claims by the Nigerian Army that it has successfully liberated all the areas occupied by the Boko Haram.
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