More rescued victims of insurgency handed over to Borno state government

Abuja, Nigeria — 

Stability is returning to northeastern Nigeria aft decades of insurgency arsenic the subject and the Borno State authorities enactment to trim violent activities and rescue abducted civilians.

Operation Hadin Kai, the military's counter-insurgency cognition successful the northeast launched successful 2021, has rescued of galore civilians held captive by insurgents.

The lawman theatre commandant of Operation Hadin Kai, Kenneth Chigbu, praised the concern with Borno State government.

"The Borno State authorities has ever travel to our assistance and enactment successful ensuring that the full authorities is escaped of the activities of terrorists," Chigbu said.

Alice Loksha was moving for UNICEF erstwhile she was abducted by the Islamic State West Africa Province insurgent radical successful a 2018 raid connected a humanitarian campy successful Borno.

After six years successful captivity, she escaped and recovered refuge successful a subject camp.

Loksha credits her state to subject efforts.

"We privation to convey God for the military," she said. "We commune that God volition proceed to fortify them and springiness them triumph implicit these terrorists"

The Borno State authorities is moving intimately with the subject to enactment survivors similar Loksha.

Zuwaira Gambo, the state's commissioner for women’s affairs, said the concern is cardinal to the region's stability.

"The synergy that exists betwixt the subject and the government, due to the fact that without the enabling environment, Borno State won't beryllium enjoying the bid and stableness we are witnessing today," Gambo said. "It is that singular committedness and governmental volition of the authorities that our sisters are capable to escape, to beryllium received by the subject and officially being handed implicit contiguous to the Bono authorities government."

Chigbu has urged terrorists to surrender, promising amnesty to those who laic down their arms.

"Let maine besides usage this accidental connected behalf of the theatre commandant to erstwhile again widen the olive subdivision to the alleged terrorists," helium said. "The combat is agelong enough. They should travel out. Amnesty volition beryllium given, volition beryllium granted them, conscionable arsenic the batch of them who person surrendered."

In July, Operation Hadin Kai successfully rescued 330 captives, including a schoolgirl abducted successful the municipality of Chibok successful 2014.

Most recently, Alice Loksha and different unfortunate person been handed implicit to the Borno State authorities for rehabilitation.