The Joint
Task Force on security in Yobe State, has killed 30 suspected Boko Haram
members, including the terrorists’ field commander, Bakaka.
A statement
by the JTF’s spokesman, Lt. Eli Lazarus, said 10 others members of the group
were arrested after a fierce gun battle Sunday in Kandahar and Cemetary areas
of Damaturu.
It stated
that the JTF was working hard to track down other members of the group.
“Six rifles,
90 rounds of ammunition, several handsets and SIM packs were recovered.
“Other items
recovered include knives, bows and arrows, diggers, two tricycles and three
cans of IEDs,” the statement added.
Last month
in Damaturu, the military said it killed 35 suspected Boko Haram members in
fierce gun battles.
Some 60
people were also arrested there following a door-to-door sweep in several
neighbourhoods.
The arrests
came after JTF soldiers in the northeastern city of Maiduguri arrested an
immigration officer, Grema Mohammed, for allegedly being an active member of
the sect, a military spokesperson had said.
Also, the
police in Minna, Niger State, Sunday night
uncovered a bomb manufacturing factory suspected to belong to the sect
in the Maitunmbi area of the town.
The police
team which raided the factory at 8.30pm said they acted on the confessional
statement made by one of the five suspects arrested in respect of the killing
of three policemen in two operations in the town last week.
The raid
which lasted for about two hours led by an Assistant Commissioner of Police
recovered from the building two 1.5 gms gas cylinder cans already prepared for
explosion.
Other lethal
weapons found in the house included about 30 cans of disposable food beverage
stockpiled with explosives.
25 kilograms
of fertilizer, batteries, remote control devices and other electrical gadgets.
After two
hours of raid, no arrest was made at the time of the raid as none of the
members were found at the building,.
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