The inability of the Nigerian troops to liberate territories captured by Boko Haram insurgents may have forced Nigerian authorities to draft in an elite unit of the Police Mobile Force, Operation Guerrilla to lead troops to liberate Mubi, the home town of the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh from Boko Haram insurgents, Leadership Friday reports. According to the Leadership Friday report, the Police Mobile Force special unit was deployed since Wednesday and had commenced action against the insurgents and has reached Marraba Mubi Junction, about 18 kilometres from Mubi town.
Ironically, the troops backing the Police Mobile Force up are said to be at Pella Junction, a distance of about 80 kilometres from Mubi. The troops is said to be led by a Colonel.
Reports say the residents of the area are in high spirit with the new development, believing that the new onslaught may signal the end of their ordeal in the hands of the insurgents in the face of the dismal performance of Nigerian troops that are in the habit of fleeing when confronted by the insurgents.
The Leadership report quoted two residents of Marraba Mubi, Mr Yohanna Gambo and Mallam Sanda Zira as saying they saw a detachment of policemen keeping vigil at the junction leading to Mubi and Michika local governments.
“We were surprised to see a handful of mobile policemen because since the fall of Mubi, we never saw a security man,” they said.
The report of the deployment of the special unit of the Police Mobile Force could however not be confirmed as at press time as the Adamawa State Police Command spokesman did not answer calls made to his mobile phone.
Efforts to contact the public relations officer of the Adamawa Police Command, DSP Othman Abubakar, were unsuccessful at the time of filing this report as calls made to his mobile phone were unanswered.
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