MNJTF: 19 ISWAP militants and their relatives give themselves in to the military

On Friday, Nov. 3, 2023, 19 alleged members of the Islamic State of the West African Province (ISWAP) combatants and their family—four men, five women, and ten children—who had escaped from the terrorists’ hideouts turned themselves in to the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) troops.

According to information obtained, the rebels turned themselves in to the 242 Battalion soldiers at the Charlie 6 checkpoint along the Monguno – Maiduguri road in Monguno town.

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According to intelligence sources who spoke to Zagazola Makama, the terrorists who turned themselves in disclosed that they had fled from the general regions of TUMBUN MUSARRAM and TUMBUN SHUWARAM in the Kukawa LGA’s Lake Chad Islands.

According to the sources, they were in possession of seven blankets, four cell phones, a mosquito net, a few personal clothes, and N399,500.00 (three hundred and ninety-nine thousand, five hundred Naira).

Sect 3 is holding the terrorists who turned themselves in so they can be profiled and looked into.

(Makama Zagazola)