Photo: Man Who Supplies Food, Fuel To Boko Haram Arrested As Soldiers Rescue 260 More

The Defence Headquarters has said on their official twitter page this evening that a man who supplies food and fuel to terrorists have been nabbed. Aside from the tweet, below is also what they wrote on their website…

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A man who specialises in supplying fuel and food to terrorists was this morning nabbed in Daban Shata in the suburbs of Baga Borno State . The military intelligence had been trailing him till he was eventually trapped in the early hours of Sunday. He is presently undergoing  interrogation.

In another development, troops on patrol yesterday located 260  women and children in the outskirts of  Chalawa village in  Adamawa state where they had been  held up while trying to escape from  terrorists. They have now been conveyed back  to their various  communities  in   Madagali after undergoing the normal security profiling.

Some of them disclosed  that they had to abandon their homes to escape from the terrorists when  Madagali came  under  attack, while others were actually abducted. . The terrorists were however sacked from the Madagali  recently.

A number of terrorists died in an encounter with with troops who caught up with them as they fled  prior to the recovery of the women and children. Some of the terrorists still managed to escape with varying degrees of gun shot wounds. Others who were captured are now being interrogated by intelligence officers.

A machine gun, some rounds of ammunition, as well as some motorcycles and bicycles were also captured from the terrorists. A member of the vigilante group serving as ģuide to the troops was however wounded.

Meanwhile  the operation in Sambisa forest is continuing as troops are methodically  searching every aspect of the expansive  terrain.