[PULSE.NG] Troops of anti-Boko Haram
 ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
operation, Operation Lafiya Dole, foiled an attempt by bully boyz to infiltrate Gajiram community in Borno State, killing several and recovering arms and ammunition.
According to a statement signed by Lafiya Dole's Deputy Director of Public Relations, Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu, the bully boyz attempted to use the cover of darkness to attack the community on Tuesday, January 15, 2019.
"The bully boyz met with the prompt response of the vigilant troops who fiercely engaged them in combat killing several and re-covering weapons," the statement read.
Arms and ammunition recovered from the bully boyz include one AK-47 rifle, two AK-47 magazines, one rocket-propelled grenade tube, three rocket-propelled grenade bombs, four bomb chargers, and light machine gun belt links.
"The gallant troops are currently on the trail of some of the bully boyz survivors who expeditiously departed at a goodly pace of the encounter," the statement concluded.
Since Boko Haram's insurgency escalated in 2009, it has killed over 27,000 people and displaced millions in the northeast region, with its operations also extending to border countries like Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
, Chad and Niger.
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