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File photo of surrendered Boko Haram chiefs
Four top Boko Haram commanders have surrendered to troops of the Nigerian Army in Gwoza Council, Borno State.
They included Mala’ana Khaid; Abu Dauda Munzir; Modu Yalee and Bin Diska.
They have been hibernating in the Sambisa forest for about a decade before they surrendered.
A counter-insurgency exper, in the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama, yesterday, disclosed in Maiduguri.
He said: “The commanders laid down their arms on December 12, 2022 to troops of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK), while they were patrolling to secure communities on the fringes of the forest…”
On what informed them to surrender, Makama said: “They surrendered for fear of battle-field elimination, due to the sustained onslaughts on the terrorists’ hideouts, as well as the rivalry attacks from ISWAP.”
Also, the Theatre Commander of OPHK, Maj-Gen Christopher Musa, said no fewer than 83,000 Boko Haram terrorists and their families had surrendered to the Army.
He said they are at currently undergoing rehabilitation at four camps.
Musa spoke, on Friday, when he visited Governor Mai Mala Buni, as part of the familiarisation of the Command and formations in Borno and Yobe states.
He said that the kinetic and non-kinetic military approaches led them to massively surrender.
He promised that the military and other security agencies would continue to devise and implement effective strategies to bring terrorism in the region to an end. (The Guardian)
