The Commander of the Civilian Joint Task Force, Kumar Sanda, made the disclosure at an event at the Airport Hotel, Ikeja on Wednesday.
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The Chairman of CJTF, Babashehu Abdulganiu, made this known on Saturday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Maiduguri.
The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, in a statement on Wednesday, said the operation was conducted by troops deployed at 192 Battalion Forward Operations Base (FOB) on Wednesday.
The victim, 42, was the Head Teacher of Asheikh Jarma Mega School, Bulumkuttu Abuja in Maiduguri, Borno State.
This is contained in a statement issued on Thursday by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Communications and Strategy, Mr Isa Gusau.
The states made their positions known in separate presentations at the ongoing public hearing on the 1999 constitutional review held on Wednesday, in Bauchi.
The insurgents, it was learnt, carted away five vehicles and killed 15 Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) members, 10 civilians and five soldiers.
An intelligence officer told PRNigeria that the young soldiers were killed when they wanted to apprehend a man suspected to be a spy for terrorists.
The Commissioner of Information, Alhaji Babakura Abba-Jato, who made this known in a statement on Thursday in Maiduguri, noted that the approval was given at the first State Executive Council meeting of 2021, presided over by Governor Babagana Zulum.
Though the victims lived in Zabarmari, a farming community in Jere Local Government Area, famous for rice cultivation and local processing, they were attacked on Saturday at Koshebe village, a place in Mafa Local Government Area.
The convoy, comprising of Military personnel and members of the CJTF, was heading to the base in Baga, Kukawa Local Government Area, when they came under heavy attack by the Boko Haram faction of the ISWAP in five gun trucks.
It has also co-opted more Civilian Joint Task Force members into its operation.
The Borno Police Command says it has arrested three persons who appeared in a video brutalising two underaged boys over alleged theft of N30,000 in Maiduguri.
The Speaker of the Zamfara State House Assembly, Alhaji Sanusi Rikiji, on Friday said no fewer than 50 persons including members of Civilian Joint Task Force were killed in Zamfara on Tuesday.
The army has confirmed that three terrorists and four Civilian Joint Task Force members died on Saturday as troops repel Boko Haram attack on a Mosque at Jidimari community in Jidari Polo area of Jere Local Government Area of Borno.
Troops of 7 Division Garrison carrying out cordon and search operations in conjunction with troops of 195 Battalion, Mobile Policemen and CJTF in some parts of the fringes of Maiduguri, Borno State on Friday discovered and arrested a wanted Boko Haram terrorists group member, Babagana Abubakar, aka Alagarno, hiding at Bulabulim Ngarnam community.
Pernille Ironside, Deputy Representative of UNICEF Nigeria, made the commendation in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja.