{"id":54006,"date":"2021-11-25T16:33:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T15:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/boko-haram-fighters-surrender-in-borno"},"modified":"2021-11-25T16:34:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T15:34:55","slug":"boko-haram-fighters-surrender-in-borno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/boko-haram-fighters-surrender-in-borno","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram fighters surrender in Borno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Some Boko Haram fighters renounced membership of the sect on Wednesday in Borno.<\/p>\n<p>They gave up their arms and ammunition to security forces stationed in the Gwoza axis.<\/p>\n<p>The commanders and footsoldiers had escaped from Jaje within the Sambisa Forest.<\/p>\n<p>Operation Hadin Kai troops of 192 Battalion deployed to Gwoza-Limankara road took them into custody.<\/p>\n<p>An intelligence officer told PRNigeria that many terrorists were forcefully conscripted at a young age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far, more than 17,000 members of Boko Haram have surrendered despite ISWAP efforts to stop them,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p>The military expects more submissions before the end of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Wednesday, soldiers engaged Islamic State\u2019s West Africa Province (ISWAP) insurgents at Malam Fatori.<\/p>\n<p>The area, near the border with Niger Republic, is one of the terror group\u2019s strongholds and hosts the Shura Council.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Some Boko Haram fighters renounced membership of the sect on Wednesday in Borno. They gave up their arms and ammunition to security forces stationed in the Gwoza axis. The commanders and footsoldiers had escaped from Jaje within the Sambisa Forest. Operation Hadin Kai troops of 192 Battalion deployed to Gwoza-Limankara road took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":54005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,45,47,254],"class_list":["post-54006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-boko-haram","tag-borno","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Boko Haram fighters surrender in Borno - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Some Boko Haram fighters renounced membership of the sect on Wednesday in Borno. 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