Abuja. More than 23 militants, including a key commander of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), have been killed in anti-terrorist operations by the Nigerian military in the country’s northeastern region over the past three weeks.
Army spokesman Bernard Onyuko told reporters in Nigeria’s capital Abuja on Thursday that the troops’ operation forced 1,159 militants to surrender and rescued 619 kidnapped victims within the region during the period.
Onyuko said the operations were conducted with “impressive successes” in the states of Borno and Taraba.
According to the report of Xinhua news agency, 627 children, 367 women and 164 men were among the surrendered terrorists and their family members and they have been handed over to the appropriate authority.
The military official said that there was an encounter with the army of Abubakar Dan-Buduma and other militants in the Marte local government area of Borno.
During this period a notorious ICWAP informer and logistics supplier identified as Mallam Abba Lawn was also arrested in Auno, a town in the Konduga Local Government Area of Borno, he said.
—AnyTV News
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