The Joint Military Task Force (JTF), has recorded a breakthrough with the killing of two Boko Haram kingpins, Zakara Yau and Muhammadu Bama in Adamawa State. The Federal Government had placed a N10million ransom on them. The two suspects died in a shoot-out
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The duo, the Battalion Commander, Lt. Col. Baydi Markus Martins, said: “were on their way to Wukari in Taraba State for an operation when the JTF monitored them from their base in Borno State, until they were intercepted in Mubi, Adamawa State.”
Col. Martins, who spoke from Mubi, the operational base of the JTF, noted that a number of soldiers sustained injuries in the encounter.
He also told newsmen that the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, has approved the immediate establishment of a base in Mubi to deal with insurgency in Adamawa State, especially Adamawa North senatorial district.
According to him, five suspects who were paraded, are being interrogated to ascertain their level of insurgency.
The commander also disclosed that the suspects were arrested last week when they attacked the Bureau de Change at Mubi International Market where they stole millions in Naira and foreign currencies.
However, some of the currencies recovered by the JTF were yesterday given to the chairman of the Bureau De Exchange in Mubi, one Mallam Nuru, shortly after parading the suspects, who operated with AK47 rifles.
Items recovered include 485 live ammunitions, 28 magazines, guns, bows and arrows, axes, cutlasses and other dangerous weapons.
Col. Martins commended the people of Mubi for their co-operation and support, without which the achievements recorded by JTF could not have been made, appealing to them to continue to suport the JTF
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