SOLDIERS WENT MISSING DUE TO BOKO HARAM ATTACK COMEBACK

The Nigerian army has updated the general public on the situation with the soldiers who went missing after Boko Haram terrorists launched an attack on a miliatry base in the border town of Gashigar in Borno.

Major-Generl Lucky Irabor, the theater commander of operation Lafiya Dole, has reported on the return of 39 soldiers, while briefing reporters in Maiduguri, on Wednesday, October 26.

He said: “It is true that about 39 soldiers were declared missing. I want to inform you that a sizeable number of our soldiers had returned to base. I think it is only a handful that have not been found.”


However, the exact number of returnees remain unclear. The operations to eliminate the terrorists in the area as well as to find and rescue the remaining Chibok girls from the Boko Haram group are in full swing.

Mr added: “Operations are ongoing in the area. I think that we will give you the details in due course. We have a task before us that anyone held by the Boko Haram terrorists must be rescued.

We will do everything possible to rescue them. So far, we have arrested 30 suspects in connection with the crime of collaborating with the terrorists. We have four soldiers, two policemen, vigilantes and other civilians.”

The arrested suspects, whose  identifies remain secret, are now interrogated to determine their level of involvement in the crimes.

“For some reasons we can not give out their names for now. But we will do that at the end of the investigation,” Mr Irabor concluded.