The fight against insurgency has continued unabated with female members of the Civilian Joint Task Force lending immense support to the war. Some of the women share the experience with Kayode Idowu of The Punch. The women are really daring. Brief excerpt below:
The gallantry of Civilian JTF in Borno and neighbouring states in the first against Boko Haram have been lauded but many are not aware of the immense roles of the female members of the group.
The women said they all took the decision to sacrifice their lives for the return of peace while either mourning their neighbours, husbands or children felled by the bullets of the sect.
These women are the amazons of the Boko Haram war in the North-East. Their weapons and strength are in the clandestine way they operate…
Though dressed in mufti, they have undergone training in self-defence tactics and decoy. They can sneak in and out of dangerous spots with ease and have robust intelligence on how to identify threats especially suicide bombers. These women have many times sniffed out suicide bombers before they could do damage.
Speaking about the activities of the women, Head of the sector commanders of the CJTF in Borno State, Baba Shehu AbdulGaniu, described their contributions as invaluable to the operations of the military against insurgency.
He said, “They are very important to our operations in the state. They are mostly used for intelligence gathering. They give information which we report to the military and security agencies and this has been useful in arresting many of the insurgents. Without adequate information, we could not have achieved the level of success we recorded in the fight against terrorism.’’
