51,828 Boko Haram surrender in 18 months – CDS Lucky Irabor

No fewer than 51,828 Boko haram fi¥hters and their family members surrendered to the Federal Government between July 2021 and May 2022, the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Lucky Irabor, has said.

Speaking at an event in Uzairue, Edo State, the military boss said that 1,543 repentant t£rrorists have so far graduated from Mallam Sidi camp, in Gombe State between 2016 and 2022, while 1,935 have been released from the camp in Bulumkutu, Maiduguri

According to him, “Between July 2021 to May 2022 alone, no fewer than 51,828 Boko haram and their family members have surrendered, out of which 13,360 are fi¥hters.”