A lot of Boko Haram fighters have allegedly been killed by Chadian troops during a fresh clash somewhere between the areas of Marte and Lokobadu in Chad.
A counterinsurgency expert and security analyst in the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama, had made this revelation via a post on his X handle on Thursday.
In the post, Zagazola remarked that the terrorists had previously attacked some local fishermen and seized their boats in the axis of Marte, leading to the gun battle between them and the Chadian security forces.
He had written,
“The Chadian troops have allegedly clashed with the Boko Haram Buduma terrorists loyal to Abu Ali, during a fighting patrol led to the deaths of several terrorists.“Earlier, the terrorists had seized the boats from fishermen in the axis of Marte and moved toward Lokobadu, but the Chadian troops waylaid them and killed several of them, seized logistics, weapons and bombs.
The terrorists who escaped the onslaught were trailed and killed along the southern rim of Lake Chad, close to the Chad-Cameroon-Nigeria border by the Chadian Airforce.”
From reports gathered, it appears that the Boko Haram fighters, supported by the deadlier Islamic State West Africa terrorists, are gaining more strongholds from across the Lake Chad region into Nigeria, particularly now, after the Chad President, Idriss Deby’s death.
