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MILITARY authorities in Borno State reported that more than 200 Boko Haram terrorists gave up fighting and surrendered to troops of the 7 Division, Nigerian Army in Borno State on Sallah day, on Thursday, September 24.
Mohammed Abubakar, a major-general and the theatre commander of the operation Lafiya Dole (Peace is Must), in the North East, said the decision of the terrorists to surrender was not unconnected to the ongoing offensive raid going on in the border communities of Banki, Bama Local Government in Borno State and Cameroon Republic.
Many communities on that axis had been under the control of the Boko Haram insurgents until they were recently recaptured by the Nigerian military.
Abubakar, who was speaking at an interactive session with journalists on Friday, September 25, at the military command and control centre in Maimalari Barracks, Maiduguri, disclosed that those who surrendered were mainly women and children. He used the opportunity to call on others to do same. “We are calling on other terrorists to surrender as anyone who surrenders will be reintegrated into the society.
“Presently, we have 36 Internally Displaced Persons Camps in the North-East and all those who surrendered to troops were screened before taken to these camps pending when the closed down roads will be reopened for motorists so that the displaced people will go back to their liberated communities.”
Abubakar also disclosed that troops of the 7Division averted tragedy on Sallah day in Maiduguri, with the arrest of a suspected terrorist who went to Madinatu Mosque in Maiduguri, capital of Borno State, to plant an Improvised Explosive Devises, IED. He said the suspect had provided useful information to track down other accomplices.
— Oct 5, 2015 @ 01:00 GMT
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