Nigeria's President has made a surprise visit to the heartland of the Boko Haram
movement to meet survivors of the massacre which saw an estimated 2,500
people slaughtered by Islamist militants.
Goodluck
Jonathan spent three hours in Maidugri, capital of Borno State, and
addressed 5,000 people who have been sheltering in a camp since the
attack by the terror group earlier this month.
The
president's visit comes just a day after new images obtained by Amnesty
International show the devastation of the assault - with more than
3,700 structures including houses and schools completely destroyed in
the towns of Baga and Doron Baga.
Nigeria's
leader has come under fierce criticism for his failure to crush Boko
Haram's bid to establish a hardline Islamic state in northeast Nigeria.
His
visit comes after aerial shots emerged yesterday of the towns taken a
day before the attack and a day after, showing the massive scale of
destruction after the massacre
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