Three days after the killing of innocent students of the College of Agriculture, Gujba in Yobe state, military authority has confirmed that 15 suspected Boko Haram terrorists have been arrested in connection with the killings.

Spokesman of the 3 division special Operation Battalion Damaturu, Captain Eli Lazarus in a statement today in Damaturu the Yobe state capital, stated that several members of the terrorists group were also killed in a ground and air strikes carried out by officers and men of the command.

“After the attack on the college of Agriculture in Gujba, our men carried out an operation around the Gujba axis and a camp of the insurgents was raided and several members of the terrorist group were killed, while 15 others were arrested” Eli Lazarus said.

Those arrested according to him are currently being investigated, where they will give the force useful information as to how to track down the perpetrators of the heinous act.

He said the military plans to come up with new measures of strategy that will curtail the activities of the insurgents and will continue to strengthen its collaboration with the civil populace so that timely and useful information can always be divulged to it in order for the military to continue to maintain peace in the state and the country as a whole.