A ridiculous report
With the reports that the ongoing military campaign against the Boko Haram insurgents have recorded what security sources described as one of the greatest breakthroughs in the campaign against Boko Haram terrorists in the North-East.
That the Special Forces, comprising ground troops and the Air Force fighters, had demobilized one of the strongest fortresses of the Boko Haram sect.
Army sources said that the camp was well planned with boreholes, dispensary and other facilities to aid the operations of the insurgents.
Soldiers who carried out the operation, were shocked by the volume of arms and ammunition and hundreds of operational vehicles that they captured at the camp.
A source put the number of vehicles captured from the insurgents at 700 while several members of the sect were arrested.
The Director of Defence Information, Maj.-Gen Chris Olukolade, confirmed the capture of the Boko Haram camp, said that several terrorists who were wounded in the military raids were arrested and had made useful confessions.
Olukolade said in an electronic mail on Tuesday that some of the wounded terrorists who were captured near Lake Chad were pleading for mercy and were cooperating with interrogators from the Multi-National Joint Task Force.
He said some of the insurgents were captured by troops around Dikwa, Cross Kauwa, Kukawa and Alargarmo and that the captives revealed during interrogation that some of the camps were disbanded as the sect could no longer sustain the operation.
“In their confessions, it was revealed that some of the camps have been disbanded following the directive of their clerics who declared that the operation of the sect had come to an end as the mission could no longer be sustained.
“The captured terrorists, who are giving useful information as to the locations of their remnant forces, are full of apologies and pleas for their lives to be spared promising to cooperate,” the statement reads in part.
Olukolade said that the captured insurgents complained of starvation and the frequency of bombardments as some of the major problems which affected them.
The Defence spokesman warned members of the public to stay away from the area, saying troops were still continuing with the operation in the three states.
“They confirmed that starvation was a major problem in addition to ceaseless bombardments on the camp locations even when they kept relocating. They also confirm that several members of the group have been wounded and no treatment was forthcoming. Troops have continued their assault on other locations across the states covered by the state of emergency.
“Meanwhile, members of the public who have started visiting to engage in sight-seeing in some dislodged camps and fringes of forests such as Sambisa and others have been warned to desist from doing so as the tendency will no more be condoned where operations are still ongoing.
“The general area still remains a theatre and movement remains restricted as the environment has to be cleared for safety of citizens. The public will be informed when the locations are safe enough.”
It was learnt that the seized vehicles included those that the insurgents used for attacks and other vehicles they snatched from people.
With the above reports ,one cannot imagine now detecting a Boko Haram camp with 700 vehicles. 700 vehicles!? What a ridiculous report?
However, Kudos to our military provided the above information is correct.
But with the entire three states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa under emergency rule and military occupation since may, it is unimaginable to admits that a fortified Boko Haram Camp of this kind with boreholes, dispensary and other facilities still exist in the area.
A terrorists camp with more than seven hundred vehicles!
How did a camp of this size and sophistication develop undetected despite the emergency rule in effect?
This camouflaged detection of this camp with 700 vehicles is worrisome?
This is very amazingly suspicious!
Vehicle assembly plant insurgent intelligence network.
May God save us!
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