49 Boko Haram fighters, 2 Commanders Ba'a Usman and Alhaji Ari, surrender to Nigerian troops

 

By: Zagazola Makama

 

Atleast 49 fighters of the Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād, terrorist group including two Commanders, Ba'a Usman (Munzir) and Alhaji Ari,(Nakib) have surrendered to troops of Operation Hadin Kai.

 

A Military Defence sources, Zagazola Makama, a Security Analyst and a Counter Insurgency Expert in the LakeChad that the terrorists surrendered to the Troops of 25 Task Force Brigade Damboa on November 20, 2022. 

 

Preliminary investigation revealed that the insurgents came out from Sambisa forest, where they have been hiding and waging campaign of terror. 

 

Recalled that no fewer than 90,000 insurgents comprising combatants and non-combatants and their families have so far surrendered to the Nigerian Troops.

 

The sources noted that the sustained onslaughts on the insurgents under the kinetic and non-kinetic approaches had led to the mass surrender.

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