MAIDUGURI — Senator Ali Ndume, representing Borno South in the National Assembly has said Brigadier General Dzarma Zirkusu and three soldiers were killed by fighters of the Islamic State of West Africa Province, (ISWAP), as revenge the killing of their commanders by the Nigerian Army.
ISWAP fighters killed Brig. Gen. Zirkusu alongside some fighters during a gun battle around Askira Uba Local Government Area of Borno State.
Ndume told journalists yesterday that ISWAP fighters killed the Brigadier General because he was a major obstacle to their operations in the area, and the terrorists rammed Zirkusu’s vehicle with a bomb-laden car.
“They know that the general was the major obstacle to their operation. They laid an ambush and rammed a bomb-ladened car into his vehicle.
“The military is aware and the air force is providing surveillance in the area. It was a revenge mission. The army has been taking out key ISWAP commanders and they have their revenge.
“Last week, for instance, they abducted relatives of the Emir of Askira. They also abducted some passengers along that road. If the Army sustains the temple, we will win this insurgency,” he said.
Meanwhile, Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State has condoled with the families and colleagues of late Brigadier General Dzarma Zirkusu and three other Soldiers killed on Saturday while battling insurgents.
Late Brigadier General Dzarma Zirkusu hailed from Garaha in Hong local government area of Adamawa state.
In a statement issued by his Press Secretary, Humwashi Wonosikou, on Sunday Night in Yola, Fintiri commended the bravery of the special forces with the support of other troops who repelled the attack by the insurgents.
The governor praised the heroism of the late Zirkusu and troops fighting terrorism in the country.
The statement read in part: “General Zirkusu and the three others were brave soldiers who died in the line of duty while fighting terrorists.
“The governor expresses his deepest sympathy and that of the government and people of Adamawa to the families and loved ones of the fallen heroes.
“The families, President Muhammadu Buhari and the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Yahaya Farouk, take heart and bear the irreparable loss, knowing that their loved ones died in active service and paid the supreme sacrifice.
Fintiri urged Adamawa people and Nigerian citizens to remember the families of the fallen heroes and to always pray that their souls rest in peace.
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