{"id":2014,"date":"2014-09-22T06:42:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T06:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2014-09-22T06:42:47","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T06:42:47","slug":"five-boko-haram-fighters-surrendered-to-soldiers-dhq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2014","title":{"rendered":"Five Boko Haram fighters surrendered to soldiers \u2013 DHQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2015\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2015\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Guns-a-pick-up-van-and-boxes-of-ammunition-seized-by-troops-from-Boko-Haram-insurgents-in-Kodunga-Borno-State-360x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2015\" alt=\"Guns, a pick-up van and boxes of ammunition seized by troops from Boko Haram insurgents in Kodunga, Borno State... on Friday.\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Guns-a-pick-up-van-and-boxes-of-ammunition-seized-by-troops-from-Boko-Haram-insurgents-in-Kodunga-Borno-State-360x225-300x187.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Guns-a-pick-up-van-and-boxes-of-ammunition-seized-by-troops-from-Boko-Haram-insurgents-in-Kodunga-Borno-State-360x225-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Guns-a-pick-up-van-and-boxes-of-ammunition-seized-by-troops-from-Boko-Haram-insurgents-in-Kodunga-Borno-State-360x225-128x80.jpg 128w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Guns-a-pick-up-van-and-boxes-of-ammunition-seized-by-troops-from-Boko-Haram-insurgents-in-Kodunga-Borno-State-360x225.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guns, a pick-up van and boxes of ammunition seized by troops from Boko Haram insurgents in Kodunga, Borno State&#8230; on Friday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Defence authorities have said that five members of the Boko Haram sect have surrendered to the troops at Konduga.<\/p>\n<p>The Defence Headquarters said in a tweet on its twitter handle on Sunday that the five insurgents surrendered to the military with all their weapons and pleaded for mercy.<\/p>\n<p>It was also stated in another tweet that other terrorists in custody of the military were volunteering useful information on the activities of the group signifying their readiness to cooperate with the security forces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the heat on terrorists continues, five terrorists yesterday (on Saturday) surrendered with all their weapons to troops at Konduga pleading for mercy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther captured terrorists have been giving useful information on the subsequent plans of the group in an apparent offer to cooperate,\u201d the tweets read.<\/p>\n<p>The troops were said to have recovered large cache of arms and ammunition from the insurgents during the battles against the insurgents at Konduga between Maiduguri and Bama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defence authorities have said that five members of the Boko Haram sect have surrendered to the troops at Konduga. The Defence Headquarters said in a tweet on its twitter handle on Sunday that the five insurgents surrendered to the military with all their weapons and pleaded for mercy. It was also stated in another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Guns-a-pick-up-van-and-boxes-of-ammunition-seized-by-troops-from-Boko-Haram-insurgents-in-Kodunga-Borno-State-360x225.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-wu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2016,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions\/2016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}