The Army reported the boy also pointed out one other alleged Boko Haram senior member, Alhaji Kerewu Abubakar, at the camp.
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Over the past year Boko Haram has stepped up cross-border attacks in Niger, Chad and Cameroon while also continuing to mount shooting and suicide assaults on markets, mosques and other mostly civilian targets within Nigeria itself. Trauma care is available for those who need it, including young girls and women who might have been used as sex slaves, he said.
Thought the minister of defence insists that the end of Boko Haram is near, last month’s attack on the 157 Battalion, which the army downplayed, is reputed to be the worst recently.
The stronghold of the insurgents in Sambisa forest was bombarded by the air force, and hundreds of captives regained their freedom. In the past, the group has targeted crowded marketplaces in the region. The group has been blamed for attacks on Shiites in the past, including a suicide bombing in November 2014 at the Shiite festival of Ashura in Potiskum in Yobe state, northern Nigeria, that killed 20 people. It was this mass abduction that sparked global outrage and even toppled a Nigerian government for failing to rescue them.
The Nigerian Army on Wednesday said vigilant troops of 7 Division Garrison providing security at Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camp, Dalori in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, have arrested an 11-year-old boy, Usman Modu Tella, a potential suicide bomber.
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The country’s defence minister, Joseph Beti Assomo, in a news site CameroonWeb, said that an important stock of weapons and ammunition and flags belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), to which Boko Haram is affiliated have been seized.
