Nigeria soldiers catch fuel & food supplier to Boko Haram

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A man said to be supplying fuel and food to the Boko Haram insurgents was yesterday arrested in Daban Shata, a suburb of Baga in Borno State.
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Director of Defence Information, Major General Chris Olukolade, who stated that the man was arrested based on military intelligence, said he had been trailed for some time before he was eventually trapped in the early hours of yesterday.

A statement by Defence spokesman said the man was under interrogation, adding that troops on patrol yesterday also located 260 women and children in the outskirts of Chalawa village in Adamawa State where they had been held up while trying to escape from terrorists.

“They have now been conveyed back to their various communities in Madagali after undergoing the normal security profiling. “Some of them disclosed that they had to abandon their homes to escape from the terrorists when Madagali came under their attack, while others were actually abducted and taken there,” he said.

He said a number of terrorists died in an encounter with troops who caught up with them as they fled prior to the recovery of the women and children. “Some of the terrorists still managed to escape with varying degrees of gunshot wounds. Others who were captured are now being interrogated by intelligence officers.

“A machine gun, some rounds of ammunition, as well as some motorcycles and bicycles were also captured from the terrorists. A member of the vigilante group serving as guide to the troops was however wounded,” he added. He explained that soldiers continued their operations in Sambisa forest as troops “are methodically searching every aspect of the expansive terrain.”

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