ISWAP/BHT: Nigerian Military Sustains Land, Air Offensives in N’East
By Alabidun Shuaib Abdulrahman
The Nigerian Military claims to have sustained the upscale in the rate of operational efforts across various theatres in the country.
The progress, the high command, boasted to have yielded significant results in the various theatres.
Brig.-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko, the Acting Director of Defence Military Operations, on Thursday in Abuja said troops of Operation HADIN KAI maintained the operational tempo in land and air offensives against terrorists and other criminal elements in the North East theatre.
Onyeuko went on to say that remarkable outcomes were recorded in different locations across the North East during the activities.
These locations include; Mazga – Kamuya, Damboa Wass – Bitta – Balo – Gwoza and Damboa – Bulabulin – Maiduguri roads as well as at Bazza, Jigaiambu and Michika towns, in Borno State.
“Dozens of ISWAP/BHT terrorists and their collaborators were neutralized in coordinated air strikes executed by the Air Component of Operation HADIN KAI on 26 September 2021,” he said.
“This feat was achieved at Daban Masara, north of Lake Chad in Kukawa LGA of Borno State, from where the criminal elements launch attacks on own troops’ locations and innocent civilians in the area.
“Cumulatively, a total of 85 BHT/ISWAP terrorists were neutralized and 43 terrorists including their collaborators and logistics suppliers were arrested in the course of the various operations.
“Also, a total of 121 assorted weapons including SMG, HK21 guns, AK-47 and locally-made rifles with magazines, 3,372 rounds of 7.62mm NATO/Special ammunition, locally made pistols and smooth body grenades, RPG-7 bombs as well as 12,250 bags of fertilizers and 178 rustled livestock among several other items were recovered.
