Boko Haram Insurgency: Troops ‘Capture Islamic Terrorists Disguised As Women’

Military has captured Boko Haram militants disguised as women in its current operations at Baga, in the northeastern state of Borno.

Beard-wearing militants belonging to Boko Haram Islamic terror organization have been dressing as women in a hopeless attempt at avoiding the attention of security officials.

Military forces liberating the town of Baga from jihadi control yesterday set up a cordon around the suburbs to help them catch any Boko Haram militants who had been unable to escape.

The security workers were shocked to come across several fleeing fighters trying to pass themselves off as females by putting on layers of colourful women's clothing - despite the fact they had refused to shave their thick jihadi beards.

On Saturday, the Nigerian defence headquarters announced that the terrorists had been expelled from the fishing town of Baga.

Boko Haram militants had captured the town in January, killing dozens of people and displacing many more in what Amnesty International described as “possibly the deadliest episode in the history of insurgency in the country”.

But recently, in a fierce offensive operation by the Nigerian air force, the terror group’s strongholds of Sambisa and Gwoza had come under heavy bombardment.

“The cordon and search in Baga has revealed some terrorists disguising as women. The searches are also yielding more discoveries of arms especially bombs hidden in various locations, especially Baga town. Apart from those captured in the course of fighting, many arrests of terrorists hiding in the town are being made and troops are still busy interrogating the suspects,” Chris Olukolade, a major-general and director of defence information said in a statement on Monday.