Emergency Rule: JTF Records Successes On Operations In Borno, Environs – Commander
He said the task force was currently working on the basis of the state of emergency declared recently by President Goodluck Jonathan to restore law and order to Borno, Yobe and Adamawa.
“As we speak, the operations are on-going and a lot of grounds had been covered and achievements had been recorded, but I won’t go into details.
“I will rather allow the gentlemen in the field to do the briefings,” the force commander said at the beginning of the tour.
A member of the JTF, Lt.-Col. Danladi Hassan, who is Commander of Combat Team One, said there had been tremendous progress.
While conducting journalists round the suspected terrorists’ camp in Kirenowa, about 60 kilometres to Nigeria’s border with Chad Republic, Hassan said the suspects left their camp on May 16.
He said this was after an encounter with the JTF and the group’s members had lived under the trees, to evade being spotted.
He said the camp also served as a training ground for the boys they recruited into the outlawed Boko Haram sect.
Hassan explained that members of the outlawed sect had destroyed their belongings when they discovered that the Federal Government troops were advancing towards them.
He also said when the troops moved into the camp, they discovered some drugs which were used by the terrorists.
Other items found in the camp include burnt cars, refrigerators, electric fans and gas cookers.
The rest are clothes, shoes, used and unused condoms, drugs and injection syringes, among others.
(NAN)
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