Nigeria military forces have rescued 90 people from the claws of the dreaded Boko Haram insurgents after a gun duel with the insurgents in two villages in Borno state.
The villages of Dissa and Balazala, in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno state, were liberated from the insurgents, just after the military reopened a co-educational primary school elsewhere in Gwoza.
Acting Director of Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, in a statement to newsmen said: “troops rescued 23 men, 33 women and 34 children from the terrorists” in the two villages.
The reopening of the school, according to the statement, in Gwoza is significant because the town was the declared seat of the terrorists’ much-talked about Islamic caliphate, and one of the cardinal objectives of the group is to stop western education.
The military stated that it would put measures in place to provide adequate security for staff and pupils.
In the same vein, scores of suspected Boko Haram terrorists masquerading as Internally-Displaced Persons (IDPs) were arrested around the town of Bama. They were said to have fled from Dara Jamel near the Banki battle zone.
It will be recalled that the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) issued a statement on Friday stating that 1.4 million children had been displaced from their homes since the onset of the Boko Haram insurgency.
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