The Military says it killed no fewer than 8 Boko Haram terrorists during a failed attack on troops location in Kukawa town,Borno State.
The Defence Media Operations Coordinator, Major General John Enenche, who disclosed this in a statement on Thursday said the encounter occurred at a time displaced persons were returning to Kukawa for resettlement.
Enenche regretted that three soldiers who were fatally wounded during the fierce encounter,later gave up at the military medical reception station at Kakuwa military location.. Two other soldiers are receiving treatment from gunshot wounds at a military facility.
His statement reads “As part of the Boko Haram (BHT)/Islamic State of West Africa,(ISWAP) elements campaign of terror and destruction, the terrorists on August 18,2020, attacked troops’ location in Kukawa town in Borno State where the attack was vehemently “thwarted”
Enenche recalled that on July 29, Governor Babagana Zulum had flagged off the reopening of Monguno-Cross Kauwa- Kakuwa Road which was followed with the resettlement of some of the displaced people from Kakuwa and life was already picking up in the town.
He stated that ” the attack by the terrorists was therefore a deliberate attempt to reverse the milestone achievements recorded regarding IDPs in the area of peace building, reconstruction, rehabilitation and resettlement efforts by the government.”
Describing the terrorists attempt to scuttle the resettlement of the displaced people in the community as futile, Enenche said “the situation in Kukawa is now calm with troops in full control”assuring that there is no going back in the military’d struggle to see to the rebuilding and resettlement efforts of the displaced people”.
Kukawa is one of the communites located in the Lake Chad axis.Boko Haram terrorists had attacked the community two weeks after the residents who were displplaced and lived in the Internally Displaced Persons camp, for two years returned to settle down.
The terrorists were said to have killed, wounded and abducted scores of the residents and reportedly hoisted an Islamic flag as conquered territory..
