Military officers and a self-defense fighter have reported that dozens of emaciated Boko Haram fighters begging for food have surrendered to Nigerian soldiers in the north-east of the country. A senior army officer, who spoke anonymously as serving soldiers are banned from speaking to journalists, said 76 Boko Haram supporters, including their children and women, surrendered to the army over the last weekend.
The starving terrorists and their supporters gave themselves up in Gwoza, a small local government area around 100km from Borno state’s capital Maiduguri. Gwoza was the site of a horrific massacre in 2014 when Boko Haram terrorists dressed up as Nigerian soldiers and slaughtered 200 mostly Christian civilians. All of the jihadists have been detained at the Nigerian army’s regional headquarters in Maiduguri, also the birthplace of Boko Haram.
The emaciated terrorists said more of their comrades want to surrender A self-defense civilian fighter serving with the Civilian Joint Task Force who escorted the detainees says they said many more terrorists want to surrender but are afraid to do so, fearful of their comrades’ retribution. Shortages of food could indicate that Nigeria’s military is succeeding in cutting off the supply routes of the Islamic extremists who have taken their fight across Nigeria’s borders.
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