The Guardian (Nigeria)

Two Boko Haram commanders, 49 others surrender to Army in Borno

• Police free 76 hostages in Kaduna, injure fleeing bandits • Bandits lay siege to Makurdi- Lafia road

- From Saxone Akhaine, Abdulganiy­u Alabi ( Kaduna), Njadvara Musa ( Maiduguri) and Samson Kukwa- Yanor ( Makurdi)

TWO Boko Haram commanders and 49 other terrorists have surrendere­d to the Nigerian Army in Borno State.

The commanders, Ba’a Usman and Alhaji Ari, laid down their arms on November 20, 2022 to troops of Operation Hadin Kai ( OPHK) patrolling Damboa Local Council.

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.

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.”

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N a related developmen­t, Kaduna State Police

Command has said security operatives have rescued 76 kidnap victims in Giwa Local Council and inflicted injuries on their captors as they flee from heavy fire from the police.

The police Public Relations Officer ( PPRO), Mohammed Jalige, said the victims were passengers from Sabon Birni Local Council of Sokoto State travelling to different destinatio­ns.

“On November 18, at about 2300hrs, the Divisional Police Headquarte­rs in Giwa received reports that a large number of bandits blocked a section of

Funtua- Zaria road at Gulbala area of Giwa and abducted many commuters,” the police spokespers­on said.

On the strength of the report, he said, a combined team of police and military were immediatel­y mobilised to the location with clear directives to dismantle the road block, root out the miscreants and rescue any victim they might have abducted.

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IKE the notorious AbujaKadun­a highway, commuters now dread the Makurdi- Lafia road because of bandits, who have laid permanent siege to the road in the past few weeks.

 ?? ?? Egyptian Ambassador to Nigeria, Moustafa Awad ( right); Nigeria’s Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami and Head of National Service Project Authority, Cairo, Gen. Walid Morsy during the visit of a delegation from Egypt National Service Project Authority to Abuja… yesterday.
Egyptian Ambassador to Nigeria, Moustafa Awad ( right); Nigeria’s Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami and Head of National Service Project Authority, Cairo, Gen. Walid Morsy during the visit of a delegation from Egypt National Service Project Authority to Abuja… yesterday.

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