Nigerian troops on Operation LAFIYA DOLE in the ongoing Operation DEEP PUNCH II have been recording successes, going by the scores of Boko Haram militants killed in the theatres of war, the voluntary surrender of hundreds of the rag-tag fighters and the flight of many from the enclaves where they were hiding.
Friday’s efforts were even more remarkable as Nigerian troops captured some high calibre weapons and equipment from the terrorists in their Sambisa Forest hideout.
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| Boko Haram members captured alive |
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| Some of the weapons seized from Boko Haram |
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| Boko Haram pickup, on which they mount guns |
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| A side of the truck is battered |
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| Burning away in the background is a shelled Boko Haram hideout in the fringes of Sambisa Forest |
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| These Boko Haram militants appear to have reached the end of the road |
Photo credit: Nigerian Army
The Nigerian Army on Saturday said 1, 050 insurgents had surrendered to troops in Lake Chad and Monguno general area of operations, as it also warned that many of them are on the run.
The army urged abutting communities to watch out for the fleeing Boko Haram insurgents as their enclaves in Lake Chad region come under intense onslaught.
Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, Operation Lafiya Dole, made the disclosure in a statement issued in Maiduguri.
Nwachukwu disclosed that 250 fighters of the Al Barnawi-led faction of the insurgents had surrendered to Nigerian Army, sequel to artillery and aerial bombardments by troops of Operation Lafiya Dole of their enclaves in Lake Chad basin.
He added that 700 insurgents also surrendered to troops at Monguno in an ongoing clearance operation.
Nwachukwu explained that Mamman Nur, another factional leader of the insurgents sustained fatal injuries and one of his wives killed in the operation, while many of the insurgents who escaped, surrendered to Niger Defence Forces.
The army spokesman noted that some of the insurgents surrendered to Nigerian Army.
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