The Defence Headquarters says troops of Operation Hadin Kai eliminated 31 terrorists, arrested 71 and received 1,186 surrendered insurgents in two weeks in the North East.
The Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Brigadier General Bernard Onyeuko, disclosed on Thursday in Abuja.
He spoke at the briefing of newsmen on the operations of Armed Forces of Nigeria between October 29 and November 11.
Onyeuko said that two of the arrested terrorists were women logistics suppliers, namely: Aisha Umar (19), with a two-year-old child, and Kaltumi Bakura (20), both residents at IDP Camp in Bama.
He also disclosed that a total of 97 kidnapped civilians were rescued, while a 122 assorted weapons were recovered during the period.
According to him, the surrendered Boko Haram elements included their families, 226 adult males, 406 adult females and 555 children, who willingly handed themselves in to troops at different locations in Borno State.
He said: “Within the period in focus, the troops of Operation Hadin Kai conducted series of land and air operations across the North East theatre that yielded commendable results.
“The sustained synergy in the land and air operational efforts have continued to degrade the operational capabilities of the terrorist elements, limit their freedom of action and drive scores of them into surrendering.
“Some of these operations were executed at different locations in Borno and Yobe , including; Rann, Dalayazara, Gwange Kura, Bam Buratai, Makintakuri and Muduvi villages as well as Marte – Dikwa and Buni Yadi – Jauro Bashir roads.”
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