As troops continued their mop operations to rid the
Sambisa Forest of the remaining Boko Haram terrorists in
the forest, the insurgents are said to have run out of arms
and ammunitions, an escapee and military sources have
revealed.
This is even as the Director Defence Information, Major
General Chris Olukolade confirmed to newsmen in Abuja
that ground troops with support from air strikes have
stormed the forest, smoking the terrorists out of their
hideouts.
Although, Olukolade did not disclose whether the troops
have succeeded in killing or destroying terrorists’ camps in
the ongoing raid which began yesterday, an escapee from
Tabe village in Damboa Local Government Area said “the
Boko Haram terrorists have run out of arms and
ammunitions as the military have intensified attacks on
Sambiza Forest”.
“You can find more than 500 of the insurgents with only few
of them having rifles and even when one or two of them
have rifles, they have no ammunitions. It is just like
somebody holding a stick…, as they have run out of
ammunitions, because the usual supplies they get are not
forthcoming.
“I am optimistic that the military will succeed by killing
many of these sect members who have been terrorising
residents in the past three years from the forest,” he stated.
According to him, “the Boko Haram terrorists have only bow
and arrows, matchetes, daggers and other local weapons,
as they have run out of arms and ammunitions and were
roaming about in the bushes of the villages along the
fringes of the Sambiza forest.”
Another resident of Yamtake village told newsmen that, “ As
a result of the recent aerial bombardment on the Sambiza
Forest, many of the sect members including their
commanders have fled into the nearby bushes in Yamtake. CLICK HERE TO READ FULL AND TOUCHING NIGERIAN CELEBRITIES BIOGRAPHY AND SCANDALS
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