Army discovers large cache of stored Boko Haram weapons in Borno
The Nigerian Army
yesterday disclosed that it has recovered a large cache of arms buried at a
spot made to look like a graveyard in Borno state. At a press briefing Biu,
Borno state, the theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, Leo Irabor, said
the cache of high calibre ammunition, worth over N20 million was discovered by
vigilant troops three days ago.
“We conducted some
various scale of operation as well as specific operations that led to the
recovery of arms cache in the village called Gursum, around Alagarno general
area; and there we had a very sterling discovery of Boko Haram terrorists
burying large quantities of ammunition on the ground. This operation was in
conjunction with the Civilian JTF because they led us through the routes.
We recovered 36 boxes
of .50MM which is equivalent to 12.7mm buried concealed as though it was a
grave . We also got 5/20 lethal brief case as well as a mixture of 7.6 mm NATO
and 7.62mm special. These ammunitions were all concealed in plastic containers
which we recovered. In addition we got 1/81 NATO tube that was wrapped in
cellophane and buried on the ground. During the operation, we also discovered
one generator, one Hilux vehicle and several motorcycles .”
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