The Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, on Friday said that notorious terrorist, Bello Turji, has declared that he is ready to surrender.
General Musa stated this on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday.
He said with Turji’s second-in-command and other lieutenants recently taken out by the military,
he has been forced to discard most of his hostages, signaling his willingness to lay down his arms.
“They (terrorists) are within the communities; the people know them. So, sometimes when they see them, before you get the information, it’s like two hours – the man has moved. So, when the information gets to you, before you move, he has left that area.
“But I can tell you, we have taken out his second in command, we have taken out most of his lieutenants, in fact he is forced now to release most of the people under him. I am telling you that recently he is beginning to say that he doesn’t want anything, he is ready to surrender.”
The Defense Chief, despite Turji’s reported willingness to surrender, maintained that anybody who has engaged in killing innocent citizens must not be spared.
“We want to take everybody out. Anybody who has killed should go, people like him should not be allowed to stay,” General Musa said.
