Troops ambush Boko Haram tax collectors, recover AK-47 in Borno

Troops of the 226 Battalion under Sector 4, Operation HADIN KAI, have disrupted a Boko Haram tax collection mission, forcing the terrorists to flee and recovering weapons and ammunition during a successful ambush operation in Borno State.
Security expert, Zagazola Makama, made this disclosure in a statement posted on X.
Zagazola said that the operation followed credible intelligence indicating that pockets of Boko Haram terrorists were moving within the battalion’s area of responsibility to collect illegal levies from herders.
He revealed that while acting on the intelligence, troops of the 226 Battalion, in collaboration with local hunters, laid an ambush along the Gaba–Dzangola hi...