Boko Haram: Chibok School girl, militant husband surrender to troops in Borno

Boko Haram: Chibok School girl, militant husband surrender to troops in Borno

Boko Haram militant along with his wife identified as a former student of Government Secondary School (GSS) Chibok, in Borno State, northeast Nigeria who was abducted with others numbering 276 have surrendered to troops of Operation Hadin Kai yesterday around the lake chad region in Borno state.

Recalled that, .on April 14, 2014, Boko Haram fighters invaded the Borno school and whisked away no fewer than 276 students.

Though the surrendered female student’s identity is yet to be released by the military authorities, it was gathered that she and her husband renounced their membership of the extremist sect.

NEWSng in Maiduguri gathered that some other Boko Haram-ISWAP insurgents have voluntarily reached out to the military, indicating their interests to surrender and lay down their arms.

“The terrorists’ resolve to surrender may not be unconnected with the destruction of their enclaves and camps by the Nigerian military airstrikes and ground bombardment; and the outbreak of killer diseases together with food scarcity, which have badly hit the terrorists.

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”In fact, there are many ISWAP and Boko Haram members that are willing to surrender as soon as possible but the military and other security services will ensure the needful is done for national security,” An impeachable source in the military said.

During a recent maiden operational tour of Sector 3 Operation Hadin Kai/Multinational Joint Task Force in Monguno, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt General Faruk Yahaya, charged troops to be decisive and alert in the fight against the Islamic State West Africa Province and Boko Haram terrorists in North-East Nigeria.

While lauding their level of discipline and commitment to duty, General Yahaya admonished them to be apolitical, decisive and circumspect in all their operational engagements.