More than 900 suspected family members and collaborators of Boko Haram/ISWAP insurgents have been arrested by troops of Sectors 3 and 4 of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF).
This was contained in a statement on Wednesday by MNJTF,
Chief Military Public Information Officer in N’Djamena Chad, Lt.-Col. Kamarudeen Adegoke in a statement on Wednesday, attributed the arrest to wrangling by the Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorist groups, effects of MNJTF and other national operations bombardment.
He admitted that movements of large people from the Sambisa forests to the Lake Chad basin within the last one month continues.
The statement reads in part: “In a joint coordinated operations between Sectors 3 and 4 of the MNJTF in the Kamadougu Yobe River general area, along the Nigeria/Niger common border areas, more than 900 people, made up of women, children and elderly people suspected to be families and collaborators of the insurgents, have been arrested.
“Collaboration with national authorities and subsequent profiling and handing over is ongoing.
“Also, troops of Sector 4 conducted a night patrol along Ngagam – Djalori Axis where they rescued three women alongside their four children who were fleeing from the fighting between the Boko Haram and ISWAP from Sambisa forest.
“In a related encouraging development, on March 8, troops of Sector 3 Nigeria deployed at Damasak, intercepted 70 terrorists’ family members comprising 43 women and 30 children.
“They are currently receiving medical attention and profiling”.
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