Boko Haram: Military adopts new tactics (Endless new tactics)

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Headlines Thursday, February 27th, 2014

From MOLLY KILETE, Abuja

The Defence Head Quarters (DHQ), yesterday said it has fortified counter measures to contain activities of Boko haram group in the country.

The announcement came following the brutal killing of some school children at Federal Government College(FGC), Buni Yadi, in Yobe state.

Similarly, the DHQ, said its troops killed six members of the terrorists group who attacked Michika, in Adamawa State Wednesday night, captured two others and destroyed nine of their vehicles.

Director, Defence Information(DDI), Major-General Chris Olukolade, said one soldier and three civilians lost their lives in the operation to battle the insurgents who in their desperation for money and food looted banks, shops and filling stations along their way through Michika, as they headed for Cameroon.

Olukolade, who made this known at a media briefing held at the Defence Head Quarters, also said that the military has intensify campaign to stop operations of the Boko haram group in the country.

The DDI, while noting that the new approach marks another phase in the operations designed to further contain the terrorists and their activities, said the specialized campaign which has commenced is being undertaken simultaneously in Yobe, Borno and Adamawa states.

He said “this operation is also in furtherance of efforts at apprehending the terrorists and ensuring they do not escape out of Nigeria as they are now desperate to so”.

On the killing of school children at Yobe, Olukolade, said those who carried out the dastardly act have been “holed up and are still engaged in suicidal fighting apparently with a view to attaining martyrdom status, as troops close in on the die hard ones among them”.

He therefore appealed to indigenes of those states especially those residents at the border area to report any movement of group in their locality, saying this would further enhance the operation and assist in apprehending and eliminating them.wp_posts