Breaking: Borno JTF Capture Boko Haram Leaders

The Joint Task Force (JTF), of the operational troops in the ongoing state of emergency rule in Borno and Yobe States confirmed that it has captured some notorious Boko Haram leaders as well as recovered various weapons, including rockets, and locally fabricated arms inside Sambisa forest. 

Other items seized by JTF from arrested terrorists and displayed to a-nine member Defence Headquarters Operational Assessment Team that just returned from the two states, include a large number of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), making materials, laptops, mobile communication equipment, GSM phones (used for shooting and posting online videos), locally made rockets and rocket launchers. 

Also seized were vehicles of different brands and several vehicles destroyed by the terrorists, as well as their tailoring equipment, apparently used for producing fake uniforms. 

The Director, Defence Information, Brigadier General Chris Olukolade, said in Abuja on Tuesday that the visit was a follow up to scheduled assessment visits to troops in the North East of the country, and has returned to brief the Chief of Defence Staff with updates on the situation in the operational area of the Special Forces operating in the North East.

Nigerian Bulletin.