Over 240 members of insurgent group, Boko Haram, have reportedly surrendered to the Nigerian army, which is currently in a war against terrorism.

Hundreds of Boko Haram fighters and their families have surrendered in Chad in the past month, security and U.N. sources said, in a sign the military campaign against them is making headway, reports Reuters.
Boko Haram, which has killed and kidnapped thousands of people, had seized an area approximately the size of Belgium in northeastern Nigeria by last year but has since lost significant ground amid growing regional military pressure.
Analyst and security sources think the fighters are probably recent recruits that Boko Haram has struggled to retain as it has ceded territory. Defections of Boko Haram fighters have been reported in Nigeria but are not known to have previously occurred on such a large scale.
"They surrendered to our troops on the front line in Lake Chad," said Colonel Mohammad Dole, Chief Military Public Information Officer for the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) headquartered in Chad's capital N'Djamena.
"The surrenders are taking place because of the firepower of our operations. The groups, many of them armed, have been arriving since September and their number keeps increasing," he said.
Some 240 fighters, most off whom are Chadian, are now being held in detention along with their families, Dole said.
The MNJTF, with troops from Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon and Benin and intelligence, training and logistical support from the United States, launched a regional operation in July against the group, which has pledged allegiance to Islamic State.



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I don't understand the meaning of 'surrender' at all here. Somebody has killed several of your colleagues tried to kill you but ran out of materials and he begs you not kill him, you now say he has surrendered. Tomorrow he goes back to his group and may be the one to pull the trigger that will kill you; what nonsense! Something is wrong with this arrangement.

nature2abdul:
I don't understand the meaning of 'surrender' at all here. Somebody has killed several of your colleagues tried to kill you but ran out of materials and he begs you not kill him, you now say he has surrendered. Tomorrow he goes back to his group and may be the one to pull the trigger that will kill you; what nonsense! Something is wrong with this arrangement.

No I don't think it iss so. They will still be prosecuted but the law could be soft on them.

Just what I think

OK