• Relocates Benue army institute
• Urges violence against sectarian attacks
The Nigerian Army has killed three Boko Haram terrorists in an ambush at Pulka village while they were fleeing from the Sambisa Forest on bicycles at the weekend in Borno State.
The military also recovered arms and ammunition after a successful repulsion of insurgents at the Camerounian border town, 119 kilometres southwest of Maiduguri, the state capital.
The confirmations were contained in a statement issued yesterday in Maiduguri by the Acting Director of Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman.
“It is equally believed that one of the terrorists escaped with gunshot wounds,” he said.
Usman continued: “The troops also recovered an AK-47 rifle with registration number 77411, a General Purpose Machine Gun with registration number FN 131908, a motorcycle as well as a bicycle and five Fabrique Nationale rifle magazines.
“Other items recovered from the terrorists include an AK-47 rifle
magazine loaded with 28 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition, 67 rounds of 7.62mm linked (NATO) ammunition and a Tecno brand of mobile telephone.”
The military also took hold of some arms and munitions in Gamboru axis of the state following a tip-off.
He added: “The troops recovered three AK-56 rifles and two AK-L rifles with registration numbers AK-L-AGB 1172, AK-L PU2879, AK-56-2556688, AK-56-22622832, AK-56-22622315, 235 rounds of 7.62mm (Special) ammunition and seven AK-56 rifle magazines.”
Meanwhile, the military high command has relocated the Nigerian Army Institute of Technology and Environment Studies (NAITES) from Benue State to Biu in Borno with 300 intakes to commence the 2016/2017 academic session.
The Rector, Brig-Gen. Clement Ojo, who disclosed this at the weekend in Biu, however, noted it was only the institute’s School of Management that had been fully relocated owing to personnel and logistic challenges.
He added that the move was an indication that the insurgency in the North-East was being overcome.
Also yesterday, the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) urged total urgency as the remnants of the insurgency lay ambushes for innocent citizens with the intention to cause humanitarian crisis in the region.
NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Group Captain Ayodele Famuyiwa, told The Guardian in Abuja that the appeal became necessary in the wake of lat week’s attack on a United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF) convoy which left one injured.
He, however, assured that the military was providing security for all.
