Events unfolding in the ongoing campaign against terror by security operatives have revealed that some members of the Boko Haram sect were captured on the fringes of Lake Chad and are making useful confessions during interrogation.
A statement by Chris Olukolade, Director Of Defence Information today, March 11, 2014 said that scores of terrorists, who had been wounded during military action have been captured after they escaped from their demolished camps.
According to the military spokes person, the terrorists confessed profusely as they sought for mercy. They said that some of their camps have been disbanded following the directive of their clerics who declared that the operation of the sect had come to an end as the mission could no longer be sustained.
Starvation and lack of medical supplies were listed as the major challenges being faced by the insurgents in their camps.
Meanwhile, members of the public who have started visiting to engage in sight seeing in some dislodged camps and fringes of forests such as Sambisa and others have been warned to desist from doing so as the tendency will no more be condoned where operations are still ongoing.
