In the statement released by ISWAP, the soldier was allegedly killed when the terrorists attacked a military base in Gujba town in the Gujba Local Government Area of the state on Saturday morning.
The Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād, has affirmed that its fighters killed a Nigerian soldier in Yobe State.
ISWAP claimed that, the soldier was killed when the terrorists attacked a military base in Gujba town in the Gujba Local Government Area of the state on Saturday morning.
It was gathered that Gujba is about 30 kilometres away from Damaturu, the Yobe State capital.
The alleged terror group added that it razed two military operational vehicles.
“An attack targeted a Nigerian army barracks, in the town of Gujba in the Yobe area, using various weapons, killing one member and making the others run away, and then burning two vehicles, and taking a heavy machine gun and a medium one and ammunitions,” it said.
Right from the time JAS leader, Abubakar Shekau, has been killed, ISWAP has been consolidating its grip in locations around Lake Chad.
Information revealed that, the sect’s membership has swollen with the defection of hundreds of Boko Haram fighters under Shekau.
The Nigerian Army has reaffirmed its position and commitment to wipe out the terrorism from the country.
“The terror group has killed many people and displaced millions of individuals mainly in Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states”. Says Nigeria Army
