Eye witnesses and security sources have claimed that the Chadian military yesterday retook Malumfatori, being the headquarters of Abadam local government area of Borno State from Boko Haram insurgents.
Abari Modu, who resides in a village near Malumfatori, disclosed that thick smoke bellowed over the deserted border with Boko Haram terrorists running helter skelter as the Chadian fighter plane kept bombarding and decimating them.
Modu, who spoke on phone from a village in Chad, was quoted as saying, “The fighter jet started shelling and bombarding the insurgents who were lodged mostly inside the local government secretariat and district head’s palace.”
While disclosing that many Boko Haram members died considering that the Chadian soldiers ensured that they did not escape through the bushes, he said, “Honestly, the operation was well-coordinated because the soldiers on the ground gave the fighter jet a chance to bombard while they tackled the terrorists that were fleeing.”
This report was confirmed to Leadership Friday by a Nigerian soldier stationed in Maiduguri. He said, “Many buildings, including the local government secretariat and district head’s palace in Malumfatori were bombed by the Chadian air force jet,” said the soldier who spoke under strict condition of anonymity.
“The Chadian forces may be proactively reacting to the recent threat issued to their government by the Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, who warned the country alongside the government of Niger and Cameroon that he may soon be taking attacks to them if they don’t stay off his business in Nigeria. The forces had the backing of their government; that was why they took the fight up to them, even in the shores of Nigeria,” he added.
It was at the last week of October in 2014 that Malumfatori town and environs was overrun by the Boko Haram terrorists who in the course of that operation sent many residents fleeing across the Chadian borders.
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