Troops of Operation Hadin Kai have rescued five children who escaped from Boko Haram enclaves across parts of Borno State following sustained military pressure on insurgent hideouts.
A counter-insurgency expert in the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama, disclosed this in a post on X, noting that the rescue operations took place on June 4 during ongoing clearance patrols and engagements in the North-East theatre.
According to him, personnel of the 82 Division Task Force Battalion rescued two girls, Aisha Idrisa (13) and Fatima Abubakar (11), in the Amuda area of Gwoza Local Government Area.
He explained that the girls fled from a terrorist camp in the Sahalawa axis after intensified military bombardments and ground offensives forced the insurgents to withdraw from their positions.
Preliminary debriefing, he added, showed that both girls are natives of Pulka community and were abducted by terrorists in 2025.
“The escapees disclosed that sustained military pressure and bombardments compelled the terrorists to flee, creating an opportunity for them to escape captivity,” he said.
The Borno State rescued girls were later screened, documented, and reunited with their families at the Pulka Internally Displaced Persons camp in the presence of camp officials.
In a separate development, three other girls — identified as Wuriya Kaka (12), Fauza Abu (13), and Hussaina Usman (13) — also surrendered to troops of the 26 Task Force Brigade in Gwoza after escaping from Guduf Nagadayo in the Mandara Mountains.
Makama added that the three are currently undergoing screening and profiling in line with standard procedures.
