Nearly 1,000 insurgents, families surrender in North-East – Nigerian Army

At slightest 958 insurgents and their household members person surrendered to Nigerian troops crossed the North-East successful 2026.

This was disclosed by the Theatre Commander of Operation Hadin Kai, Maj. Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar.

He revealed this connected Wednesday portion speaking to journalists successful Maiduguri, saying the fig adds to a increasing inclination of wide surrenders recorded successful caller years.

Abubakar said that since 2021, a full of 152,864 insurgents and their families person laid down their arms.
He broke down the figure, explaining that 20,815 are progressive antheral fighters, 37,095 are women, and 64,114 are children.

“The dependable summation successful surrender is simply a nonstop effect of sustained subject pressure, degradation of violent capabilities, and effectual non-kinetic measures,” helium said.

He explained that galore of those who surrendered cited aggravated subject operations, the breakdown of their bid structures, and worsening surviving conditions arsenic cardinal reasons for giving up.

According to him, each those who surrender acquisition thorough screening and interrogation, which helps the subject stitchery utile quality for ongoing operations.

“Information obtained from the debriefing of these individuals has importantly enhanced our operational readying and...