Nigeria's Defence Headquarters, DHQ, has explained how
it was on a hot trail of a man who specializes in supplying fuel and food to
terrorists.
The suspect was eventually found and nabbed on Sunday
morning in Daban Shata a suburb of Baga, Borno state.
The military intelligence said it had been trailing
him till he was eventually trapped in the early hours of Sunday. He is
presently undergoing interrogation, a statement by the Defence Headquarters
read.
In another development, troops on patrol yesterday
located 260 women and children in the outskirts of Chalawa village in Adamawa
state where they had been held up while trying to escape from terrorists.
They have now been conveyed back to their various
communities in Madagali after undergoing the normal security profiling.
Some of them disclosed that they had to abandon their
homes to escape from the terrorists when Madagali came under attack, while
others were actually abducted. The terrorists were however sacked from the
Madagali recently.
A number of terrorists died in an encounter with with
troops who caught up with them as they fled prior to the recovery of the women
and children. Some of the terrorists still managed to escape with varying
degrees of gun shot wounds. Intelligence officers are now interrogating others
who were captured.
A machine gun, some rounds of ammunition, as well as
some motorcycles and bicycles were also captured from the terrorists. A member
of the vigilante group serving as ģuide to the troops was however wounded.
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