The ongoing military operations by Armed Forces of Nigeria will use its military might to neutralize any criminal groups anywhere there is threat in the country. The Director of Defence Media Operations DMO Major General Edward Buba said this on Thursday while briefing news men on the activities of various theatres of operations across the country.
Buba who spoke at the Defence Headquarters Abuja focused on the successes of the troops
as at October 6 20231, saying, “the military through its operations continues to prevail against the effects of insurgency and terrorism with an ultimate goal of securing the country against perpetrators of insecurity for national progress”.
Buba stated, “during the course of operations in the last one week, the military neutralized 31 terrorists and arrested 81 of them.
Answering a question on safe haven for the criminals across the country, the spokesman said, “we’ll invade and dismantle all safe havens”.
He said troops also arrested 11 perpetrators of oil theft, rescued 10 kidnapped hostages while a total of 63 BH/ISWAP terrorists and their families surrendered to troops across theaters of operation.
“Troops denied oil theft of an estimate sum of Two Hundred and One Million Four Hundred and Two Thousand Two Hundred and Sixty Naira (N201,420,260.00). “Additionally, troops recovered 65 assorted weapons and 391 assorted ammunition. “The breakdown as follows: 26 AK47 rifles, 4 locally made rifles, 6 dane guns, 2 locally made pistols, 7 magazines, body armour ammo among others.
“Others are: 345 rounds of 7.62mm special ammo, 19 rounds of 7.62mm NATO, 7 rounds of 9mm ammo, 36 live cartridges, 10 rounds 7.62 x 39mm war heads, 48 motorcycles, 12 mobile phones and 43 and the sum of N327,960.00.
“Troops in the Niger Delta area discovered and destroyed 7 dugout pits, 9 boats, 25 storage tanks, 39 cooking ovens, 3 pumping machines and 14 illegal refining sites. “Troops recovered 367,300 litres of stolen crude oil, 11,353 litres of illegally refined AGO, 12,500 litres of DPK and 5,000 litres PMS”, he said.
He assured that the ongoing military operations will continue to set the stage for social and economic progress.
He added that “the ultimate goal is to secure the country through the defeat of those threatening safety of citizens and perpetrating insecurity across the country”.
