Major General Musa Danmadami, Director,
Defence Media Operations, who disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday, at the
bi-weekly news briefing on the operations of the armed forces reported that
troops of Operation Hadin Kai in the North East had, between October 20 and
November 2, captured 27 suspected Boko Haram and Islamic State of West Africa
Province (ISWAP) terrorists and neutralised 19.
Danmadami said that the troops also
recovered a large cache of arms, ammunition of different categories, and other
logistics supplies during the period, adding that an air interdiction mission
was conducted on a terrorist convoy along Tunbum Aliyu, near Lake Chad, a
terrorist location Southwest of Maiduguri.
“During the period in focus, a total of 145
Boko Haram terrorists and their families comprising 30 male adults, 33 female
adults and 82 children surrendered to troops at different locations within the
North East theatre of operation,” Danmadami said.