- Musa said Turji is ready to surrender after the heavy losses inflicted on him by the military in recent weeks.
The Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, says that fearsome and notorious terrorist, Bello Turji, has expressed his willingness to lay down his weapons.
Speaking during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday, Musa said Turji is ready to surrender after the heavy losses inflicted on him by the military in recent weeks.
He said with Turji’s second-in-command and other lieutenants recently neutralised by the military, he has been forced to release most of his hostages.
He also said the migratory nature of the terrorists also makes it difficult to track them down and take them out.
“They (terrorists) are within the communities; the people know them. So, sometimes when they see them, before you get the information, it’s like two hours – the man has moved. So, when the information gets to you, before you move, he has left that area.
“But I can tell you, we have taken out his second in command, we have taken out most of his lieutenants, in fact he is forced now to release most of the people under him. I am telling you that recently he is beginning to say that he doesn’t want anything, he is ready to surrender.”
The Defense Chief, despite Turji’s reported willingness to surrender, maintained that anybody who has engaged in killing innocent citizens must not be spared.
“We want to take everybody out. Anybody who has killed should go, people like him should not be allowed to stay,” General Musa
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