Nigeria’s military said on Thursday it had rescued 63 people after dislodging Boko Haram Islamists from villages in the country’s restive northeast.
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At least five Boko Haram fighters escaping through Sabsawa axis of Sambisa forest have been confirmed dead and several others injured in the early hours of today, March 4, following an attack by troops of 21 Brigade Bama, under 7 Division of the Nigerian Army.
It added that Moses was arrested while spying on a mosque in Bauchi, under the guise of desiring to be converted to Islam, but the people suspected his mission and reported him to the authorities.
Food shortages could indicate that Nigeria’s military is succeeding in choking supply routes of the Islamic extremists who have taken their fight across Nigeria’s borders.
The group’s six-year insurgency has led to the deaths of some 17,000 people, destroyed some 1,000 schools and displaced more than two million people. The group has been known to forcibly recruit women and children-Boko Haram members kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls from their dormitories in Chibok, Borno state, in April 2014.
“The new management committee is to device strategies to ascertain the sources of all cattle being traded and slaughtered at the cattle markets; ensure that a mandatory period of three to four days is observed on all cattle sold before they are sent to the slaughter house in order to enable interested parties to inspect them”, The Governor said.
Alhaji Modu, a local politician from Abadam, said that the northern Borno area and particularly the Chad basin area has plentiful fish and food that have been sustaining the Boko Haram fighters. It promised those who give themselves up voluntarily that they will be rehabilitated through a de-radicalization program.
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A military source was quoted to have said: “Boko Haram made an attempt [on the installation] but we repelled it killing five of them”.
