The Nigerian Army reported on Thursday that 68 Boko Haram terrorists have surrendered to troops in Borno in the last three weeks.
Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, the Deputy Director Public Relations, Theatre Command, Operation Lafiya Dole, said in a statement released in Maiduguri that the military has not relent in its operations in Maiduguri on air and land offensive operations has been intensified against the insurgents.
Nwachukwu said "Air and artillery bombardments were backed by long range patrols and ambushes targeted at preventing fleeing Boko Haram insurgents from escaping and also denying them access to logistics supply,”
"The sustained operations had brought the insurgents to the brink of defeat thereby forcing many of them to surrender," he said.
According to the testimonies of the insurgents, intesity at while troops are pounding the insurgent both on land and from here and the blocking of supply lines for the terrorist by troops is making life unbearable for them and is majorly the reason many of them surrendered.
“The insurgents who surrendered are currently undergoing rehabilitation and deradicalisation process under the Federal Government’s Safe Corridor operation.
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