JUST IN..... Troops kill a top rank Boko Haram commander

The troops of the Multi National Joint Task Force may have killed a
very high ranking member of the Boko Haram Sect in the ongoing
military operation in the North East.
It was learnt that the insurgents' commander whose identity was not
revealed was killed in one of the raids carried out by Federal troops
and their counterparts from Chad, Niger and Cameroon.
It was stated that the late commander was one of the top officers to
the founder of the Boko Haram Sect, Muhammad Yusuf.
The Boko Haram Commander was said to have been killed during the
battle of Malamfatori.
Nigeria's neighboring countries are deploying a total of 3600 troops
to the Multi National Joint Task Force to aid the nation's current
onslaught against the Boko Haram.
Out of the figure, Chad contributes the largest figure of 2,500 troops
while Niger and Cameroon contributes 700 and 400 troops respectively.
It was stated that the insurgents' top commander was killed in an air
strike by helicopter gunships of the Nigerian Air Force, involved in
the combined operation with ground forces during the fight to reclaim
some border towns from the insurgents.
Some of the towns liberated by the soldiers of the Multi National
Joint Task Force from Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon are
Gamboru-Ngala, Malamfatori, Abadam, Kirawa and Ashigashiya and
Michika.
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It was gathered that troops had encircled Gwoza, and were moving
against the town which was captured and made part of a caliphate
announced by the insurgents last year.
An Intelligence personnel said on Thursday that the Nigerian Army also
made a big break in the battle against the insurgents by recovering
some of the most lethal military equipment captured by insurgents when
they took over the Baga base of the task force.
The recovered equipment included "a Battle Armoured Tank equipped with
comprehensive protective system and maximum firing distance and
accuracy with anti-aircraft rotating mount; its fire accuracy is
attained by range-finder, ballistic computer with a thermal barrel
sleeve."
Also in the list of the captured items are armoured personnel
vehicles, artillery guns, arms and ammunition, and Hilux vehicles.
Our correspondent could not get the Director, Defence Information,
Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, to comment on the story as the calls to his
mobile telephone line could not connect.
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