As troops void 6 suicide bomb attempts in a week
The Nigerian Army has announced the promotion of 6,199 soldiers currently involved in the fight against Boko Haram in North East.
This is contained in a statement by the Director of Army Public Relations Department Brigadier General, Sani Usman. The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai approved the promotion on Tuesday.
“The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General TY Buratai, has today Tuesday 25th July 2017, approved the special promotion of 6,199 soldiers serving in Operation LAFIYA DOLE to various ranks between Lance Corporals to Warrant Officers in the Nigerian Army,”
the statement said.
Brigadier General Usman gave the breakdown of the beneficiaries of the special promotion as follows: Staff Sergeants to the rank of Warrant Officers –329, Sergeants to Staff Sergeants –371, Corporals to Sergeants –707, Lance Corporals to Corporals –1,290 and Privates to Lance Corporals –3,502.
Lt. General Buratai congratulates the beneficiaries and urged them to increase the tempo of the ongoing clearance operations of the Boko Haram terrorists in the North East where personnel of the Nigerian Armed Forces and other security agencies have been battling to defeat the Boko Haram since 2009.
Meanwhile, troops of Operation Lafiya Dole engaged in the fight against the insurgents in the NorthEast, have neutralised not less than eight suspected female suicide bombers in the last one week , Lt. Col. Kingsley Samuel has said.
Col. Samuel, the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations Department disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Maiduguri. He said the suicide bombers were unleashed by remnants of desperate Boko Haram terrorists trying to cause mayhem in the region.
“Troops of Operation Lafiya Dole in the past few days intensified efforts towards checkmating suicide bombings in Borno in North-East Nigeria. “The troops recorded huge feat in foiling suicide bomb attacks by neutralising not less than 8 female suicide bombers who were unleashed by remnants of desperate Boko Haram terrorists,” he said.
Col. Samuel also said that one of the suspected female bombers was neutral ised last Sunday by troops of 251 Battalion of the 7 Division Garrison, while trying to infiltrate Dalori Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp.
“The female suicide bomber who was sighted by vigilant sentries refused several warnings to halt when challenged. “Subsequently, she was neutralised resulting in the detonation of her suicide vest killing her without any other casualty on the side of troops or civilians.
“Unfortunately, the blast from the detonation of the female suicide bomber’s vest created a hole on the fence of Dalori IDP Camp 2,” Samuel said.
Col Samuel said that troops were maintaining strict vigilance in the state to forestall any breach of security.
He said that on July 16, two suspected female suicide bombers trying to infiltrate military locations at Mammanti village at about 10.15 p.m. were neutralised. “One suspected female suicide bomber who was attempting to infiltrate a location between Cimari and No-Man’sLand was promptly neutralised in the early hours of July 17 at about 2 a.m
