Two suspected members of the Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, have surrendered to troops of the Nigerian Army in Monguno Local Government Area of Borno State.<\/p>\n
In a post on X by security expert, Zagazola Makama on Wednesday, the two men, identified as Jidda Modu, 20, and Kaka Kawu, 21, surrendered at about 8:20 p.m. on September 1 to troops of Headquarters Sector 3 deployed at Charlie 4, Monguno town.<\/p>\n
Zagazola stated that the surrendered terrorists handed over two AK-47 rifles, eight rounds of 7.62mm special ammunition and two magazines.<\/p>\n
According to him, other items recovered from them include five mobile phones \u2014 Infinix, Tecno, Samsung, Redmi and a Tecno button phone \u2014 as well as one pair of earbuds, a power bank, a Zenith Bank ATM card, a memory card and a USB cable.<\/p>\n
The security expert noted that the troops also recovered two head warmers and one bag from the men.<\/p>\n
He added that preliminary interrogation revealed that the two were among a group of about 10 ISWAP members who reportedly left a terrorist camp at Arinna Chiki with the intention of surrendering to the authorities.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe surrendered individuals and the recovered items have been taken into the custody of Headquarters Sector 3 for further action.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe development comes amid intensified military operations under Operation HADIN KAI, which have continued to place pressure on terrorist networks and encourage fighters to abandon the insurgency,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two suspected members of the Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, have surrendered to troops of the Nigerian Army in Monguno Local Government Area of Borno State. In a post on X by security expert, Zagazola Makama on Wednesday, the two men, identified as Jidda Modu, 20, and Kaka Kawu, 21, surrendered at about 8:20 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n