Nigerian troops captured a top leader of the Boko Haram sect on Thursday, March 20, 2014 in Gwoza Hills, Borno State.
According to reports, the leader was arrested on Thursday evening while he was trying to flee the bombarded Gwoza Hills with a black Toyota Land Cruiser sports utility vehicle in his escort.
70 other terrorists were were killed in the operation.
According to the Punch reports, it was gathered that the special forces waited for the convoy of the insurgents on their way to Bama when an intelligence report was received that they (the insurgents) were on their way to launch another attack in Bama.
A security source said that the insurgents were moving in 15 trucks loaded with fighters when they ran into the ambush of the troops.
The source said that the troops destroyed seven of the trucks which caught fire and killed about 30 of the insurgents.”
However, it was stated that the insurgents escaped with eight of the vehicles in the convoy.
When our correspondent contacted the Director of Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, he confirmed the deployment of APCs and military tanks but asked to be given more time to confirm the capture of the Boko Haram commander and those killed in the two battles.
“That APCs and military tanks were deployed is no news but you have to give me some time to confirm this story from the relevant places,” he said.
However, Olukolade said that the troops arrested a middle-aged Cameroonian who served as the arms courier for the sect.
He said that the arrest of the Cameroonian led to the discovery of a large cache of arms and ammunition which was hidden in the premises of a burnt church.
Olukolade said that weapons recovered from the insurgents in the premises of the church in Kalabalge Local Government Area of Borno State included anti-aircraft guns, rocket-propelled guns, other brands of machine guns and thousands of various calibres of rounds of ammunition.
He said that the Cameroonian led troops on a cordon and search operation to a hideout where a terrorist was captured. He was silent on the rank of this particular terrorist whose singular arrest featured in his news statement.
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