“Our boys are still on the field with Nigerian soldiers and have received instructions to continue raids on all Boko Haram border villages until we defeat them”, said Kodji, reports The Associated Press.
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“Victor Moses went to a mosque in Bauchi State and pretended that he wanted to be converted to Islam and the people suspecting that he was not genuine, promptly reported the matter”. One man, identified as Victor Moses, was arrested after lurking around a local mosque, claiming he was a Christian looking to convert.
During this new operation, 850 hostages of the Boko Haram sect were freed, the Cameroonian Minister of Communication, Issa Tchiroma Bakary announced.
Spokesman of the Nigeria Army, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman confirmed the development to Leadership via a press statement.
The military says one of the spies helped carry out surveillance on the St. Theresa Catholic Church, Madalla, Abuja which was bombed in December 2011.
The Nigerian Army yesterday stated that it has arrested a man accused of spying for Boko Haram, along with three suspected accomplices who were involved in the deadly church bombing in Madalla over five years ago.
The group has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State militant group and says it wants to create a strict Islamic state in northern Nigeria.
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The military official, who begged not to be mentioned, revealed that the repentant terrorists are being detained at military headquarters in Maiduguri, which is the command center of the war against Boko Haram insurgents. But the insurgents took possession of the area back and became “landlords” after the soldiers had left.
