The Army in a statement on Saturday signed by its spokesperson Onyema Nwachukwu described such claims as spurious and derogatory, aimed at smearing the image of the service.
A defence intelligence source told PRNigeria that troops, under Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) launched surprise attacks from different fronts on the fringes of Sambisa Forest, in the Bama axis, Borno.
This comes a few days after a 48-year-old pastor, Michael Abiodun, was arrested for allegedly defiling and impregnating a 12-year-old member of his church at Owode Egba in Obafemi-Owode LGA.
Igbinoba had alleged that Mosadoluwa and his thugs attacked her for daring to ask him to refund N30 million collected from her siblings and about a parcel of land which was later found to have been fraudulently sold.