Boko Haram: Troops rescue 25, reunite four kidnap victims with families in Kaduna

The Nigerian Army said that soldiers from the 144th Battalion were able to free 25 people who were being held by Boko Haram terrorists.

Director of Army Public Relations Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu said in a statement on Monday that the brave troops and Hybrid Force freed 14 prisoners during a clearance operation at Gobara village in the Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State.

He said that among the people who were saved, there were 6 women and 8 children.

“In a similar operation on Sunday, August 27, 2023, troops from the 82nd Task Force Battalion and the Hybrid Force raided a Boko Haram terrorist base in Gava Village in the Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State and saved 11 people.

“At the moment, all of the rescued victims are in the care of the troops and are being profiled,” the statement said.

It also said that seven members of a Boko Haram family turned themselves in to troops of the 81 Division Task Force Battalion in Borno State’s Dikwa Local Government Area on August 27, 2023.

According to the statement, there were three adults and four children in the family. On August 27, 2023, in Kaduna State, troops of 2 Battalion, Nigerian Army, acting on actionable information, killed one criminal and freed four kidnap victims in Kwana Shehu Village in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

It said that the people who were saved had been reunited with their families, and it asked the public to help the troops by giving them reliable information to improve actions going on all over the country.