The Troops from 21 Special Armoured Brigade, 26 Task Force Brigade, and 199 Special Forces have rescued more than 386 persons, mostly women and children in the Sambisa forest ten years after their abduction.
Brig. Gen. AGL Haruna, Acting GOC 7 Division disclosed this while speaking to newsmen at the outskirts of Sambisa forest in Konduga LGA of Borno State after welcoming the troops that conducted the 10-day operation.
“The operation tagged “Operation Desert Sanity 111” was to clear Sambisa forest of the remnants of all categories of terrorists as well as provide some of them eager to surrender the opportunity to do so.
“Our effort is to ensure that we clear remnants of terrorists in the Sambisa and give those willing to surrender the opportunity to surrender.
“With this operation, we envisage many of them will surrender as they have started.
“We also rescued some civilians; as of yesterday, we rescued 386 and I am sure the number will increase by today,” Haruna said.
The GOC, who read the message of Chief of Army Staff, lauded the performance and professionalism exhibited by the troops during the operation and urged them to sustain the tempo.
Some of those rescued said they have been in captivity for the past 10 years.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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