The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has said despite operational setbacks orchestrated by terrorists and criminals in North-Central Nigeria, a high-profile terrorist Commander, Sale Mustapha (Ibin Kathir), has surrendered to troops in Bama, Borno State.
This is just as the troops arrested 22 terrorist spies, 11 terrorists, three logistics suppliers and rescued 30 civilians.
The Director, Defence Media Operations, Major General Benard Onyeuko, stated this during the biweekly update on the Armed Forces of Nigeria operations between March 25 – April 7, 2022.
He said a total of 51,114 Boko Haram terrorists and families surrendered to troops so far, comprising of 11,398 men, 15,381women, 24,335 children as at April 5, 2022.
He said the Air Component after several days of surveillance of terrorist activities at Bukar Meiram and 2km South of Kollaram, conducted air interdictions which took out heavy stockpile of ISWAP weapons in their depot.
He said troops in the last two weeks recovered one Battle Tank, five artillery guns, two GTS, three AA guns, one Mine Resistance Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle, three gun trucks, one MOWAG Armoured Personnel Carrier, two RPG tubes, three RPG rockets, three RPG bombs, one NSVT gun, two GPMG, one light MG, one PKM, anx three GPMG belts.
Others include four belts of PKT rounds, 600 7.62mm NATO rounds, 16 AK 47 rifles, one dane gun, 270 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition, one Toyota Buffalo vehicle, one Golf saloon car, four motorcycles, six magazines, two pairs of camouflage, two terrorist flags, one tricycle and one active drone.
Credit: Leadership