Posted on: 12:36 Sat, 11 Jun 2016



The Nigerian Army, in continuation
of the war against insurgency, has
destroyed 8 camps belonging to the
Boko Haram terrorist sect in
Yajiwa, Alagarno Forest, Borno
State.

The Acting Director, Army Public
Relations, Col. Sani Usman, said on
Friday that the camps were
destroyed by troops of 156 Task
Force Battalion of 29 Task Force
Brigade, members of the Civilian
JTF and members of local vigilante
in the area.



According to Usman, several items
were recovered from the terrorists
including “two primed Improvised
Explosive Devices, three Pressure
Plates, 36 hand grenades, two Dane
guns, seven motorcycles and five
empty cases of 12.7mm rounds of
ammunition.”

A damaged mine detector, a vehicle
and camel bag were also recovered
during the operation.



Usman also said the troops
recovered “a vehicle top cylinder, a
19.5 tyre rim, 4-size13 tyre rims, a
19.5 rim tyre, three tyre jacks, two
motorcycle tyres and two solar
panels, as well as two small
generators, a grinding machine,
three water pumping machines, a
Namsac sprayer and one bag of
fried groundnut cake.”



The recovered IEDS were
successfully detonated by the
Explosive Ordinance Device Team
of the Army.