Report has it that no fewer than 443 repentant Boko Haram terrorists and their families surrendered to the Nigerian Army in Borno State.
This was disclosed by a counter-insurgency expert in the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama, yesterday in Maiduguri that the rivalry clashes raised the death toll to 300 among the two terror groups.
According to him, 223 Boko Haram terrorists and families surrendered to the troops of Sector Multi National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) between March 7 to 10, 2023 in Diffa and Gueskerou in Niger.
He stated that the terrorists confessed that the ongoing rivalry between the two factions had forced them to escape to safer areas.
According to report, since February 27, 2023, Boko Haram had been fleeing their enclaves amidst deadly attacks targeted at the groups at Gaizuwa, in the Mantari-Gabchari-Kashimiri-Maimusari axis of Bama Local Council.
The Director, Defense Media Operations of Nigeria’s Defense Headquarters, Maj-Gen. Musa Danmadami, stated that 1, 332 terrorists and their family members surrendered in the last two weeks to the Army.
He attributed the increasing surrenders to continuous deadly rivalry between Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terror groups.
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