Monday 4 May 2015

Nigerian troops arrest Boko Haram food, fuel supplier; free 260 captives


The Defence Headquarters said a man who specialises in supplying fuel and food to terrorists was on Sunday nabbed in Daban Shata in the suburbs of Baga, Borno State. This was contained in statement issued by the Director of Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Chris Olukolade, in Abuja. 

The director said that the military intelligence had been trailing him till he was eventually trapped in the early hours of Sunday. 
He added that the man was presently undergoing interrogation. 

Olukolade also stressed that the troops on patrol on Saturday located 260 women and  children in the outskirts of Chalawa village in Adamawa, where they had been held up while trying to escape from terrorists. He said they had been returned to their various communities in Madagali after undergoing the normal security profiling. 

He added that the operation in Sambisa forest was ongoing as troops were methodically searching every aspect of the expansive terrain.

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