The Nigerian military has moved to cut off fish supply to Boko Haram insurgents by banning the transportation of fish in commercial quantity along the reopened Maiduguri –

Monguno – Baga Road in Borno State.

The ban was contained in a statement issued on Friday in Maiduguri by Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu, Deputy Director of Army Public Relations at the war Theatre Command in the Borno State capital.

The statement, a copy of which was made available toNews Express, reads: “It has been observed that following the reopening of Maiduguri – Monguno – Baga Road, the illicit act of fish smuggling has been on the increase. Unfortunately most of the fish or its proceeds end up in the hands of Boko Haram insurgents, thus providing logistics replenishment for the insurgents.

“In view of this untoward development, the Theatre Command Operation Lafiya Dole wishes to remind the general public that the ban on transportation of fish in commercial quantity along the aforementioned route is still very much in force and defaulters will be arrested and sanctioned. Only subsistence fishing for inhabitants’ consumption is permitted.”