The troops of Forward Operational Base (FOB) operating along Bocobs-Bama Road, Borno State, have taken custody of several Boko Haram insurgents, their families including children, who surrendered to the Nigerian Army.
The Director of Army Public Relation, Onyema Nwachuku, who disclosed this, said that the terrorists, comprising of 19 adult males, 19 adult females and 49 children from Njimia, Alafa–axis of Sambisa Forest, surrendered around 06:52 a.m. on Monday.
The army listed items recovered from the insurgents to include; Eight AK-47 rifles, one general-purpose machine gun, Weapon Alpha, one Dane gun, one Makarov pistol, ammunitions and magazine, two hand grenades, 27 Ak-47 rifle magazines, one pistol magazine, one 60MM mortar bomb and 10X14.5MM empty cases, one plier, three matchboxes, two syringes, two needles, one pack of infusion set, and N55,000.
Others include; Two primed vests, 72 trigger switches, 10 Improvised Explosive Device, detonating cord, six-packs of water gel explosive, six mobile phones, one camera camel pack, one camouflage bag, two hard drives, and two scissors were recovered.
Nwachuku added that the troops of Forward Operations Base (FOB) operating along Bocobs-Bama road also arrested 20 terrorists and their families, who surrendered to troops at Nbewa village also in Bama Local Government Area.