Boko Haram militants reportedly returned to Konduga in Borno state yesterday, September 25.
According to a report by SaharaReporters, the insurgents returned to the town in an attempt to seize Mauduguri, the state capital.
A source confirmed that the sect regrouped and returned to Konduga while some of them were engaged in a gun battle with Nigerian army in Benisheik, Borno State.
Konduga has been the site of much fighting between the sect and the Nigerian army.
For some time Boko Haram fighters dominated Nigerian soldiers in battle and took several major towns in Borno and Adamawa States but things have been quite different in the past weeks, as the soldiers have recordedvictory.
Several attempts by Boko Haram to attack Konduga town has been frustrated by troops that inflicted a heavy defeat on them.
Some days back, reports surfaced that a senior Boko Haram member likely to be an imitation of the group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, might have died during a confrontation in Konduga, Borno State.
The Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, had hinted that the Federal Government will not celebrate the death of Shekau but will rather celebrate the laying down of arms by Boko Haram members.
According to the Nigerian Defense Ministry, about 135 insurgents surrendered on Tuesday, September 23, some at Buni-Yadi some 200 kilometers (125 miles) west of Konduga and others at Michika, 165 kilometers (100 miles) south of Konduga.
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