BOKO HARAM : ARMY RELEASES 182 SUSPECTS

 About 182 people including women and children that were arrested over links with the Boko Haram yesterday were released in Maiduguri as part of the activities marking this year’s Nigerian Army Day Celebration.

Some of the released suspects include nursing mothers who were arrested while pregnant and delivered their children in detention.
Similarly, all the officers and men of the Nigerian Army who have been in

the battle front towards containing the Boko Haram insurgency for at least three months were given special awards while those that died in action were honored post-humously.

This year’s event was held in Maiduguri with almost all the army generals, led by the Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Kenneth Minimah and hundreds of rank and file in attendance.
Minimah first paid a courtesy call on Governor Kashim Shettima at the government house and thereafter proceeded to the Shehu’s palace where he paid homage to the monarch, Alhaji Abubakar Garbai Al-Amin El- Kanemi. During the two visits, Minimah said he was optimistic that the Boko Haram war would soon come to an end.

Minimah also told the Shehu of Borno that mass deployment of troops and equipment is ongoing as part of strategic plan to confront the Boko Haram terrorists once and for all. Both the Chief of Army Staff, Governor Shettima, the Shehu of Borno and other dignitaries later converged on the 7 Division Cemetery where they laid wreath for the fallen heroes that died while fighting the Boko Haram. Minimah later handed over the 182 suspects to Governor Shettima at a ceremony at Maimalari Barracks.
He said they were freed after a special committee interrogated them and found them innocent.
Those freed include 100 men, 40 underage boys, 24 women and 18 children.