WAR AGAINST TERROR : JTF kills 52 Boko Haram militants, arrests 70, recovers arms in Borno

Shortly after the departure of Mr. President from Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, the Joint Task Force Operation Restore Order in Borno state has in a latest operation in Maiduguri engages the Boko Haram sect in gun battle where the JTF killed over 20 sect members, arrests 25 while two JTF personnel were killed and three injured as arms and amunations recovered.
JTF in a statement made available to DailyPost in Maiduguri said in the last ten days, a total of over 52 sect members has been killed in exchange of fire, while 70 were arrested.
The statement sign by Lt. Col. Sagir Musa explained that, the operation on Friday between the hours of 3 and 8pm about an hour after the President Jonathan left led to the recovery 3 anti aircraft guns, 10 rocket propelled grenade tubes, 3 general purpose machine guns and 17 AK47 riffles.
Others includes 1 pistol (Lama), 20 RGP chargers, 1*36 hand held grenade, 1 teargas riffle, 33 G3 magazines, 11,068 assorted amunations, 4 technical vehicles with mounted anti aircraft stands, 1 box of weapons cleaning kit, 4 swords and 2 knifes, 5 walking talkie, 4 764 hand held sets, 1 multi links router and assorted uniforms and kits all recovered on Friday’s operation.
The JTF said the operation was successful because of the cooperation and intelligence information they have received from people and therefore, thank members of the public particularly their moles in the Boko Haram’s camp for giving them the information that assisted in the successes so far recorded.
Jtf also reminded members of the public to continue to give credible and timely information to security agencies to combat insecurity through the following lines: 08064174066, 07065464012 and 08154429346.
Lt. Col. Sagir Musa also said that in all the operations there was no civilian casualty