FIRE BALL Clearing Remnants Of Boko Haram/ISWAP Terrorists From Their Enclaves, 75 Dead
WilliamsrubiNov 8, 2020 6:12 AM

1. Sequel to the graduation of Operation FIRE BALL, a subsidiary operation below Operation LAFIYA DOLE which is supposed to clean the remnants of the Boko Haram/ Islamic State West Africa Province terrorists from their diagnosed enclaves withinside the North East location.

The Operation has recorded exquisite successes in the quick length from its lifestyles with the ultimate week of the previous month proving to be the deadliest in opposition to the criminals.


2. The troops withinside the numerous Sectors of the Theatre have endured to perform their duties relentlessly. The successes to this point done wouldn’t had been feasible with out the sacrifice, dedication and gallantry exhibited through the properly encouraged troops a number of whom have paid the best sacrifice.

Within this length, the troops have achieved competitive clearance operations, ambushes, sturdy day and night time patrols with a view to in the end decimate the remnants of the Boko Haram/ISWAP criminals.


3. Consequently, because of the competitive offensive motion achieved through the troops, numerous terrorists factors had been neutralized as massive variety in their system had been captured at the same time as a few had been similarly destroyed withinside.


this regard a complete of seventy five Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists had been neutralized inside this length. In phrases of the criminals system four x Gun Trucks, 1 x Bedford Truck, three x Anti Aircraft guns, had been destroyed.


The captured guns include: 6 x Gun Trucks, four x Anti Aircraft guns, 1x PKT gun, four x General Purpose Machine Guns,1 x Automatic Grenade Launcher, 1 x Dushka Gun, 1 x Light Machine Gun, forty eight x AK forty seven Rifles, 1x Locally made Pistol and 10 x Furthermore, massive cache of ammunition had been captured additionally.


This include: 1 x 36 Hand Grenade, 567 rounds of 7. 62mm Special ammunition, 448 rounds of 12. 7mm ammunition, 50 x Rocket Propelled Grenade bombs, 17 domestically synthetic rounds, three shells for making Improvised Explosive Device, 1 x Smoke Grenade and a pair of x belts of Other diverse non deadly objects had been additionally captured from the criminals.


4. Regrettably, one officer and a pair of gallant infantrymen paid the best fee at the same time as four different infantrymen had been wounded in motion over the length. However, the wounded infantrymen have due to the fact that been evacuated to a navy scientific facility and are presently responding to treatment.



5. The troops of Operation FIRE BALL below Operation LAFIYA DOLE are hereby recounseled for his or her resilience, doggedness and dedication exhibited due to the fact that the start of the similarly recommended now no longer to relaxation on their oars however construct at the successes recorded to this point.


6. The complete population of the North East location are hereby confident of the Nigerian navy excessive command willpower to in the end rout the remnants of BHT/ISWAP criminals from their enclaves on this zone.