Two hundred and forty Boko Haram militants have surrendered to troops of the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) in a massive defection of the militants in Chad Republic.
A statement yesterday by the spokesman of the MNJTF, Colonel Muhammed Dole said the firepower of MNJTF ground troops and joint Air operation during the ‘Operation Gama Aiki’ forced a massive defection of remnants of the Boko Haram militants. He said sustained offensive operations and blockage of logistics supply routes made the Boko Haram locations untenable; as a result, militants and their families abandoned their locations and surrendered with their arms to the nearest locations of the ground forces in the operation areas.
Dole explained that the recent wave of mass defection took place in Sector 2 Area of Responsibility (AOR) Bagasola in Chad.
He said the defectors are being profiled and camped in Bagasola.
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