Repentant Boko Haram fighters die after mistaking IED for scrap metal in Borno

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  • July 27, 2022
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Repentant Boko Haram fighters die after mistaking IED for scrap metal in Borno

– Tamarauemi Ebimini

Eight repentant Boko Haram fighters were on Monday killed after an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) exploded in the North East of the Bama Local Government Area of Borno State.

The men were said to have sneaked out of Bama to deal in scrap metals with some terrorists in a market known as ‘Daula’ on the outskirts of Goniri village before the incident happened.

The former terrorists, who were among the 1,000 reintegrated into the community and resettled at Government Girls Secondary School in Bama, received the scraps from some Boko Haram fighters hiding in Sambisa forest without knowing that an IED abandoned during a military offensive was among the items they were carrying.

Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency expert, reportedly got the information about the incident from an intelligence officer.

He added that the former terrorists constantly dealt in exchanging scrap metal for food items like salt, seasoning, maize, and some non-food items like petrol, medicine, and clothing.

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