 A member of the House of Representatives from Kainu State Haruna Deliri says Nigeria is losing territories to Boko Haram insurgents. In this next report, Osarugi of Boan looks at the grave implications of this comment and what must be done urgently to address the challenges. Successive administrations have often times claimed victory against the insurgent group Boko Haram. They defeated, as it was described by the Minister of Information. But over time, the group has continued to wreak havoc across northeastern Nigeria, with recent reports of an attack on Damasakin Borno State. A lawmaker Haruna Deliri stated that Nigeria was losing territory to the Boko Haram sect and this has led to questions about Nigeria's efforts to read the country of insurgents. By holding territory, it means you are entering the territory and in this context, we are discussing political governance like the group did in 2013-2014, where they had structures for administering those territories. Now, I can say confidently that there is no part of Nigeria that is being held in that context. However, there are security-challenged environments. What I would say is we are on a plateau. We've been able to stop their expansion in terms of the territorial domination that they set. They remember their objective is to set up a caliphate. Now, we've been able to stop that, we've not been able to prevent them from actualising their objective in the sense that they are still recruiting, they are still terrorising residents of that look of the north east. Analysts have repeatedly shared ideas on what must be done in order to record more victories in the fight against insurgency. My opinion is that we were not implementing the national counterterrorism strategy fully. Now, that national counterterrorism strategy was developed in 2014 and I think it's absolutely important that in 2021, we should do a re-evaluation, see where we veered off the implementation of that document and answer the very important question, why is it that it's only the military that is implementing that document? The Nigerian army in its response stated that the Boko Haram sect doesn't control any territory in Nigeria and that the damasak attack was repelled by the army. For Sao Kieh, O'Gon, PLOS TV Africa.