Nigerian 72 Battalion Has Lost 28 Soldiers To Boko Haram - Commander Reveals

 

According to the Commanding Officer, Col. Timothy Lagbaja of the 72 Special Forces Battalion, Makurdi, 28 soldiers of the battalion have been killed by members of the Boko Haram sect in the North-East and in Benue.

 

In a press conference in Makurdi which held on Wednesday, 15th of July, he revealed that between 2012 and 2015, the battalion lost four officers and eight soldiers to the Tiv/Fulani and Agatu crises in Benue.

He said that the remaining 16 was lost to insurgency in the North-East. Others that are currently injured are being treated at home or abroad depending on the degree of the injury sustained.

The commander said the battalion alone had deployed about 500 soldiers to serve in the special security outfit `operation Zenda’ to maintain internal security in the state. He commended the operation as it has helped to recover weapons of destruction from criminals illegally possesing them. This has also reduced the case of killings in the state.