The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) says it has arrested two suspects for allegedly supplying illicit drugs to the Boko Haram and Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) insurgents in Lake Chad region.
The suspects were also alleged to be supplying uniforms and flag materials to the insurgents.
This contained in a statement by Lt. Col. Olaniyi Osoba, spokesman of the MNJTF, on Thursday in Maiduguri.
He said that troops of the task force arrested one of the suspects (name withheld), along Kekeno – Cross Kauwa road in Borno, and recovered substantial quantity of substances and 198 parcels of marijuana.
Osoba said the troops also rescued three women and a baby, suspected to be family members of the terrorists, adding that they claimed to had escaped from the terrorists’ enclaves in the southern Lake Chad Island in Marte Local Government Area of Borno. (NAN)
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