The Nigerian Army has confirmed that it lost an officer and three
soldiers, in Borno State, on Thursday, when their patrol vehicle encountered
IED buried on the road
between Kangarwa and Alagarno village.
Army spokesman, Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, confirmed the incident in a
statement on Friday, while giving update on troops’ clearance operations in the
North-East between Tuesday and Thursday.
He said three other soldiers sustained various degrees of injuries,
while the patrol vehicle was completely damaged.
Usman, however, said three suspected terrorists who planted the
explosive and hid themselves had been fished out and neutralised.
The army spokesman added that apart from clearance operations, troops
stationed at Banki in Borno rendered humanitarian assistance to over 887
Nigerian refugees who returned from Cameroon since Tuesday.
He said the troops, also on Thursday, handed over Miss Jada Hachaba,
who was abducted by the terrorists to her mother at Gulak in Adamawa.
The army spokesman explained that Hachaba escaped from the terrorists’
captivity, adding that she was handed over in the presence of the District Head
of Gulak.
At Buni Yadi in Yobe, Usman said that troops in the period under review
discovered a 122mm D30 unexploded ordinance inside an uncompleted building at
the Federal Low Cost Housing Estate.
He said the Explosive Ordinance Team was drafted into the scene to
safely detonated the explosive.
Usman said that based on credible information, troops arrested two
suspected Boko Haram terrorists’ collaborators/informants; Abubakar Ahmed, 23
and Aji Maina, 45, on Wednesday.
“Both were arrested at Garin Gada and Kanamma after painstaking
trailing.
“Abubakar Ahmed was arrested while trying to collect relief materials
for onward conveyance to Boko Haram terrorists, while Aji Maina was arrested
while on transit at Kanamma enroute Gamari in Niger Republic,’’ he said.
Similarly, Usman said that vigilant elements of 8 Division Nigerian
Army stationed at Kukawa in northern Borno intercepted two minors on Thursday.
He named them as Abubakar Aji, 13 and Isah Mustapha, 12, adding that
they were on spying mission on troops’ location at Kukawa.
“On further interrogation, the minors claimed to have been with Boko
Haram terrorists in Kangarawa since 2014,’’ he said. (NAN)
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