- Written by From: Njadvara Musa, Maiduguri
A combined team of 7 Division Nigerian Army and Nigeria
Air Force (NAF); Wednesday destroyed the training camps and hideouts of
Boko Haram sect group used to launch a planned attacks on Doho and
Marguba villages in Kaga council area of Borno state; while some of the
terror suspects fled towards the Nigerien border towns of Gubio and
Damask.
Speaking Thursday in Maiduguri on the foiled attacks on two villages; and measures employed secure people’s lives and property, the spokesman of 7 Division of Nigerian Army, Lt. Col Mohammed Dole said the fleeing terror suspects are being pursued with ground and aerial bombardments of both training “camps and track routes” to dis-stabilize the militants’ strikes and attacks on towns and villages in the state.
He further disclosed that; after foiling the attacks on two villages of Doho and Marguba on Wednesday, five vehicles were also destroyed, including two Hilux vehicles used in the destroyed camps of terrorists that move in groups to launch attacks on innocent people.
“This is the tactics employed by the insurgents in striking at villages and towns, but we will not allow them to sit down and plan at their training camps to launch any attack to destroy people’s lives and property, as recently experienced at Kawuri, Pulka, Izge, Benishiekh, Bulabulin Ngarwa, Mafa and Mainok.
“We have also re-strategized by changing our tactics, by de-stabilizing the insurgents’ plans and strategies of attacking these towns and villages in this state. The recent successes we are witnessing; were also made through the cooperation of members of the general public in providing us with useful and credible information on the modus operandi and activities of the Boko Haram group in their respective communities and other general areas,” said Lt. Col Dole.
He said the 132-kilometre Maiduguri-Damaturu road, is being patrolled regularly to protect people and other motorists’ lives and property, as the troops gradually track the fleeing insurgents into the Sambisa Forests.
Speaking Thursday in Maiduguri on the foiled attacks on two villages; and measures employed secure people’s lives and property, the spokesman of 7 Division of Nigerian Army, Lt. Col Mohammed Dole said the fleeing terror suspects are being pursued with ground and aerial bombardments of both training “camps and track routes” to dis-stabilize the militants’ strikes and attacks on towns and villages in the state.
He further disclosed that; after foiling the attacks on two villages of Doho and Marguba on Wednesday, five vehicles were also destroyed, including two Hilux vehicles used in the destroyed camps of terrorists that move in groups to launch attacks on innocent people.
“This is the tactics employed by the insurgents in striking at villages and towns, but we will not allow them to sit down and plan at their training camps to launch any attack to destroy people’s lives and property, as recently experienced at Kawuri, Pulka, Izge, Benishiekh, Bulabulin Ngarwa, Mafa and Mainok.
“We have also re-strategized by changing our tactics, by de-stabilizing the insurgents’ plans and strategies of attacking these towns and villages in this state. The recent successes we are witnessing; were also made through the cooperation of members of the general public in providing us with useful and credible information on the modus operandi and activities of the Boko Haram group in their respective communities and other general areas,” said Lt. Col Dole.
He said the 132-kilometre Maiduguri-Damaturu road, is being patrolled regularly to protect people and other motorists’ lives and property, as the troops gradually track the fleeing insurgents into the Sambisa Forests.
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