{"id":381168,"date":"2021-08-05T22:23:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T21:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=381168"},"modified":"2021-08-05T22:23:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T21:23:26","slug":"more-boko-haram-members-wives-surrender-to-nigerian-military-submit-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=381168","title":{"rendered":"More Boko Haram members, wives surrender to Nigerian military, submit weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">More Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) members have surrendered to the Nigerian military.<br \/>\nThey presented selves to Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK) conducting counter terrorism and counter insurgency operations in North-East.<br \/>\nBrigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, Director of Army Public Relations in a statement said there have been sustained air and ground bombardments on hideouts in Sambisa forest.<br \/>\nNwachukwu noted that 18 terrorists led their families to troops and laid down arms.<br \/>\nThe insurgents were with a total of 18 adult females and 19 children from Chingori and other surrounding villages around Sambisa.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-899067\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2021\/08\/More-Boko-Haram-members-wives-surrender-to-Nigerian-military-submit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"724\"><br \/>\nFive 5 AK 47 rifles, 1 foreign AK 47 rifle with telescopic sight, 1 Fabrique Nationale rifle, 8 AK 47 rifle magazines, 1 FN rifle magazine, 1 Bandolier, 3 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition and N7,700.00 were recovered.<br \/>\nAlso, a Boko Haram fighter from Abuja Asamau village in Sambisa surrendered to troops.<br \/>\nHe submitted his AK 47 rifle, 2 magazines, 1 Magazine holder, 1 round of 7.62mm ammunition and N5,000.<br \/>\nOver 100 Boko Haram and ISWAP members have turned themselves in the last two weeks.<br \/>\nThe Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt. Gen. Faruk Yahaya has charged troops to remain dedicated to the war against terrorism.<\/div>\n<p><strong><em>(DailyPost)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) members have surrendered to the Nigerian military. They presented selves to Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK) conducting counter terrorism and counter insurgency operations in North-East. Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, Director of Army Public Relations in a statement said there have been sustained air and ground bombardments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":381169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[5115,37,40],"class_list":["post-381168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-army","tag-boko-haram","tag-borno"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/381169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}