Chibok ambush

Chibok ambush
Part of the Boko Haram insurgency

United States Army map showing the ambush
Date13–14 May 2014
Location
Near Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria
Result

Boko Haram victory

Belligerents
Boko Haram  Nigeria
Commanders and leaders
Unknown Nigeria Maj. Olalekan Akintola ("Lokoso") †[1]
Units involved
Unknown

Nigerian Army

Casualties and losses
Several killed (gov. claim)[3] 12 killed, several wounded[3]

The Chibok ambush was an attack of Boko Haram insurgents against a Nigerian Army convoy in the night from 13 to 14 May 2014, as the latter was searching for schoolgirls who had been kidnapped by the Islamist rebels. Even though the Nigerian Army forces managed to extricate themselves from the ambush, the attack seriously affected the morale of the involved soldiers who felt that their leadership was carelessly sacrificing them in the war against the insurgents. As result, elements of the Nigerian Army's 7th Division subsequently mutinied at Maiduguri and almost killed their own commander, "humiliat[ing] the Nigerian military".[2]

  1. ^ Jo Daniel (20 May 2014). "Pics of soldiers killed by Boko Haram that caused military mutiny in Maiduguri". Information Nigeria. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  2. ^ a b "12 soldiers who shot at GOC in Maiduguri sentenced to death". Premium Times. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
  3. ^ a b TRADOC G-2 (2015), pp. 9, 10.