By our reporter/ The Nigeria Army on Monday said one hundred and four members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) and their families have surrendered to troops.
According to a post on its verified Facebook page with photos of some of the repentant terrorists and their relatives, the army said the former ISWAP fighters surrendered their weapons on Saturday to troops of the 25 Task Force Brigade in Damboa town of Borno State.
A breakdown of the figure shows that 22 of those received by the soldiers are men, 27 of them are women and the remaining 55 are children.
The Director of Defence Media Operations at the Defence Headquarters in Abuja, Major General Bernard Onyeuko, who confirmed the development,
said troops in the North East have continued to gain successes over the activities of ISWAP fighters in the region.
According to him, this followed the week-long sustained aerial attacks by military fighter aircraft, including a Super Tucano of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) that raided ISWAP camps in the area.
The latest feat comes barely two months after 192 people surrendered to troops fighting ISWAP and Boko Haram fighters in the North East.
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