Lt.-Col. Abubakar Abdullahi, Chief Military Public Information Officer, N’djamena, Chad, stated this in a statement on Thursday in Maiduguri. Abdullahi said that the group included seven men, nine women and 31 children.
He said that the terrorists’ families returned to Kwatan Turare and Doron Baga, Kukawa Local Government Area, Borno Nigeria, after spending several years with the terrorists. He disclosed that during the initial investigation conducted, it was discovered that those who surrendered managed to escape from Sharama, located in the Lake Chad Islands.
According to him, among those who surrendered was Mallam Muazu Adamu, a known fighter within the Jama’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihad (JAS) faction.
