JUST IN: 51 Boko Haram terrorists surrender in Borno

• Two Boko Haram commanders, and 49 others surrender to Army in Borno
• Boko Haram continues to suffer a devastating loss of its foot soldiers

No fewer than 51 Boko Haram terrorists surrender in Borno As the Nigerian military intensifies its campaign against terrorism in the area and in the Lake Chad region, Boko Haram rebels have continued to give up in the terror-torn North-East.

Ba’a Usman (Munzir) and Alhaji Ari (Nakib), two of their commanders, as well as 49 fighters, surrendered to Operation Hadin Kai Thearter Command soldiers on Sunday, November 20, in Damboa, 85 kilometers south of Maiduguri.

More so, a counter-insurgency expert, in the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama, disclosed in Maiduguri, yesterday: “Preliminary investigation of the military revealed that the insurgents came out from Sambisa forest. The terrorists had been hiding and waging campaigns of terror from the forest.”

According to him, over 90,000 terrorists and their families in the North East have already surrendered to the Army.

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Military sources in Maiduguri said: “The sustained onslaught on the terrorists with kinetic and non-kinetic approaches led them to massively surrender. The state government has already established four camps for their rehabilitation and integration into communities.”

A few days ago, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Super Tucano fighter jet killed 16 Boko Haram terrorists in the Banki border area of Bama Council in Borno State.

Following intelligence-driven aerial and ground-coordinated military actions by troops in the border regions with Cameroon, rebels were neutralized on November 16 and 17, 2022.

Yesterday in Maiduguri, Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency expert from the Lake Chad region, revealed that “Boko Haram has suffered another devastating loss of its foot soldiers in the coordinated joint military operations in the border districts of Banki.”

He claimed that the terrorists who had been neutralized had been sleeping in the border towns of Chongolo and Tangalanga with Cameroon, located 134 kilometers east of Maiduguri, the state capital.

On how the terrorists were killed, he said: “The bombs from the detailed attack Super Tucano Aircraft accurately hit on the target,” adding that this led to the obliteration of 16 of the terrorists and their motorcycles.

He added that the operation was conducted pursuant to credible intelligence reports indicating that the settlement was one of the locations being used by the fighters.

“The terrorists used the settlements as their staging locations to attack nearby military bases and soft targets in Banki border areas with Cameroon,” he said.