Sodiq Mojibola
In two weeks of operation, the military troops of Operation Hadin Kai have reportedly swept out 510 boko haram terrorists, forcing them to surrender and rescued 131 abductees, including two Chibok School girls.
This was made known on Thursday, by the Director, Defence Media Operations, Major General Musa Danmadami, from the Defence Headquarters.
In a bi-weekly news conference on the operations of the armed forces, Danmadami detailed that the troops neutralized 40 terrorists while the 510 members included families of the Boko Haram sect.
He added that on April 20, the troops apprehended five terrorists and rescued 121 civilians comprising 72 children and 49 females including two Chibok schoolgirls who were on serial two and 103 of the list in Borno.
“510 Boko Haram/Islamic State of West Africa Province terrorists and members of their families, comprising 54 adult male, 164 adult female and 292 children surrendered to troops at different locations.
“Troops also recovered one pump action gun, two local made double barrel gun and one local made short gun.
“Also recovered were 51 rounds of 12.7mm ammunition, 26 rounds of 12.7 x 108mm, 280 rounds of 7.62mm NATO, 16 refilled rounds of 7.62mm NATO, 1 round of 9mm ammunition, 74 rounds of 7.62mm special ammunition, 77 rounds of 7.62 x 51mm ammo and 182 rounds of 7.62 x 54mm ammunition,
“15 empty cases of 7.62mm special, 14 empty cases 155mm ammunition, 46 assorted bullets, four Improvised Explosive Devices, 48 AK47 rifles magazines, 33 snipper rifle magazines, among different calibre of bombs and others were recovered too.
“This is in support of ground operations at villages within Konduga, Bama, Mafa, Maiduguri and Damboa Local Government Areas as well as Sambisa Forest in Borno.
“Overhead these locations, were observed to be active terrorist scrambling for cover under the vegetation.
“Consequently, these locations were engaged with bombs and rockets and the battle damage assessment revealed that several terrorists were neutralised with their logistics and structures destroyed in the strikes,” he added.
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