No fewer than one hundred and four members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) and their families have surrendered to troops, the Nigerian Army has revealed.
Africa Today News, New York reports that the army made this disclosure on Monday in a statement made public on its verified Facebook page where it shared photos of some of the repentant terrorists and their relatives.
According to the army, the former ISWAP fighters surrendered their weapons on Saturday to troops of the 25 Task Force Brigade in Damboa town of Borno State.
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A breakdown of the figure shows that 22 of those received by the soldiers are men, 27 of them are women and the remaining 55 are children.
Meanwhile, the Federal Government of Nigeria has revealed that it has uncovered 96 financiers of terrorism across the country, especially those backing Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP).
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed made this disclosure during a press conference on the administration’s fight against corruption in Abuja on Thursday, February 3.
He said the ‘Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), in 2020-2021, revealed 96 financiers of terrorism in Nigeria,’ while 424 associates and supporters of the financiers were also uncovered.
Also, about 123 companies and 33 Bureau de change, were linked to terrorists in addition to 26 suspected bandits/kidnappers and seven co-conspirators who have now been identified.
According to the minister, ‘the analysis has resulted in the arrest of 45 suspects who will soon face prosecution and seizure of assets’.
Still, on terrorism financing, Lai Mohammed said the NFIU had intelligence exchanges on Boko Haram, ISWAP, banditry, kidnapping, and others with 19 countries.
See the photos shared by the army below:
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK