Boko Haram insurgents has launched an onslaught on Army Special Super Camp at Ngamdu, a border town between Borno and Yobe.
The military installation in Ngamdu is where Gen. Buratai relocated to to coordinate a final offensive on the insurgents.
According to The Nation, the Boko Haram insurgents carried out the attack on Thursday.
This audacious attack by the insurgents is coming barely 72 hours after the Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. Buratai sent a strong-willed message to rout out the insurgents within a very short period.
The Chief of Army Staff who, in an attempt to boost the morale of the troops, celebrated the 2020 Easter with them.
In his celebratory message to the troops at the Camp, he promised to stay with them until the insurgents are decimated.
But the insurgents Thursday tested their confidence by lunching a daring attack on the camp even as Gen. Buratai and his officers were currently at the camp apparently mapping out strategies on how to execute his final blow on the insurgents.
Irrefutable sources at the camp who spoke on the condition of anonymity disclosed that the insurgents came in motor gun trucks from the south-western side of the camp and opened fire on the camp.
Other sources also revealed that mortar guns where lunched in the camp but no casualty was recorded. Some of the troops were said to have sustained minor injuries.
Our correspondent gathered that Buratai ordered the troops to chase the ranting insurgents away and warned them to focus on a bigger target.
“The Chief of Army Staff told the soldiers to see what happened as a distraction from the main operation that they are going to carryout. But we defended ourselves very well by repelling them,” the source said.
Another source opined that the insurgents could have been infuriated by an earlier offensive operation that the troops carried out yesterday.
“We suspect it was the advance operation that we carried out yesterday that got them angry and they decided to come to attack us. You know we killed some of their men in the operation and captured others alive so they were angry,” he informed.