Troops of the Nigerian Army and
their Camerounian counterparts have arrested three top Boko a Haram Commanders
of ‘Ameer’ class in a joint operation.
The Acting Director, Army Public
Relations, Col. Sani Usman, gave the names of the arrested terrorist commanders
as ‘Lawal Abba, Mallam Hisna and Mallam Gana.
Usman said in a statement on
Tuesday that the troops of the 152 and 155 Battalions and their counterparts
from the Multinational Joint Task Force from Cameroon who carried out the joint
operation also killed 20 members of the deadly sect.
The Acting Army Spokesman said
that the troops also destroyed 10 of the camps of the insurgents and released
some of the people held hostage by them during the joint action. According to
him, a total of 1,275 hostages were rescued from the insurgents during the
operation. He said that the troops of the 152 Battalion were screening the
rescued hostages in preparation for their movement to Internally Displaced
Person camps.
He said that the troops also
cleared the insurgents from areasformerly occupied by them such as Nbaga, Bula,
Dabube, Ybiri, Greya and Suduwa towns and other adjoining settlements.