263 Insurgents Surrender at Nigeria-Cameroun Border

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263 Boko Haram insurgents and their families have surrendered to the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) in Sector 1, Cameroon, as the ongoing offensive against insurgency and banditry intensifies.

In a statement, Lieutenant Colonel Abubakar Abdullahi, Chief Military Public Information Officer of HQ MNJTF N’djamena, Chad, reported that the insurgents surrendered between July 10 and July 17, 2024.

The wave of surrenders began on July 11, 2024, when five terrorists surrendered to MNJTF troops in Wulgo, located on the Nigeria-Cameroon border.

Following investigations, it was revealed that these insurgents came from Tumbuma and Kutumgulla in Marte Local Government Area, Nigeria.

Malum Kori Bukar escaped from the Jibilaram hideout on the same day and surrendered to the troops. Subsequently, 19 terrorists surrendered in Madaya, North Cameroon, and another 11 surrendered in Wulgo from the Tumbuma hideout in two waves.

In Bonderi, Cameroon, 64 individuals, including 6 adult males, twenty women, and thirty-eight children, surrendered, and on July 12, twenty-seven terrorists surrendered, followed by a mass surrender of one hundred and two individuals on July 13, including twenty adult men, forty women, and forty-two children in Bonderi, North Cameroon.

Additionally, five more individuals surrendered in Wulgo, with two coming from the Tumbuma hideout in southern Lake Chad. On July 16, two terrorists surrendered, and the next day, forty-eight more terrorists and their families, comprising ten adult males, fifteen females, and twenty-three children, also surrendered to the army.

Preliminary investigations revealed that all surrendered individuals are Nigerians. The insurgents have been handed over to the troops of Operation HADIN KAI for further action.

According to the UN body, Nigeria as a whole has suffered varying degrees of damage resulting from the decade-long conflict.

The North-Eastern part of the country particularly Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa states has been ravaged by the Boko haram insurgents displacing millions of people and destroying properties.

Boko Haram’s rise and insurgency have dramatically changed the lives of thousands of women and girls, often casting them voluntarily or by force into new roles outside the domestic sphere.

Some joined to escape their social conditions; others were abducted and enslaved. Seven years of war have caused gender-specific suffering.

While men have disproportionally been killed, women are an overwhelming majority among the estimated 1.8 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the North East.

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