Oh Yah!! Warplanes Pound Boko Haram Strongholds As Ground Troops Invades Sambisa Forest, Gwoza

Barely 24 hours after the military recaptured 11 communities hitherto occupied by Boko Haram in Borno State, a major success was recorded yesterday, in the effort to flush out the insurgents within the six weeks approved for service chiefs.

The Defence Headquarters yesterday revealed successful air strikes on the Sambisa Forest, the training camp of Boko Haram and Gwoza, before ground troops moved in.

According to a statement by Major General Chris Olukolade, Director of Defence Information, the air strikes uprooted insurgents, with many of them scampering around the forest.

He stated: “A concerted air campaign by the Nigerian Air Force is ongoing in furtherance of the mission to clear terrorists from all their enclaves. The air strikes, which today (yesterday) targeted the training camps and logistics dump of the terrorists in Sambisa forests and parts of Gwoza, have been highly successful, as it achieved the aims with required precision.

“The death of a large number of terrorists has been recorded while many others are also scampering all over the forest and out of the struck bases. Meanwhile, the strikes continue in other locations of the theatre heralding the advance of troops and other elements of the mission.”