PRESS RELEASE
Troops of 7 Division Garrison Nigerian Army
in Operation LAFIYA DOLE, yesterday made a remarkable progress by arresting a
Boko Haram terror kingpin, Mr John Trankil, at Kasuwar Shanu in Maiduguri
metropolis.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the
suspect said that 9 of them were sneaked into the Maiduguri armed with AK
47 assault rifle each and a Hilux vehicle laden with 20 Improvised Explosive
Devices meant to be detonated at some selected targets in the city.
The Theatre Commander operation LAFIYA DOLE,
Major General Yusha'u Mahmood Abubakar, commended the efforts of the troops and
renewed call for the troops and the public to be more vigilant and security
conscious particularly at all check points, markets, worship centres, motor
parks and schools.
In a related development, troops of 21
Brigade Nigerian Army, while on offensive operations on Boko Haram terrorists
location, with the support from the Nigerian Airforce discovered and destroyed
the terrorists' Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and Rocket making factory
along Bama-Gonin Kurmi within the outskirts of Bama town, Borno State.
The items recovered includes gas cylinders,
welding machine, pipes and poles. Others include locally made rocket shells,
plenty of assorted chemicals, unprimed IEDs and various technical and
laboratory equipment suspected to be stolen from schools' laboratories around
Bama before they were dislodged from the area.
Colonel TI Gusau (Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, 7 Division, Maiduguri)
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