Nigeria military in its continued operations in all spheres against the terrorists have continued to yield positive results as troops across several theatres of operations decimating over 109 terrorists and arrested 81 in the last one week, reports MJConcept TV News.
Major General Edward Buba, Director Defence Media Operations, disclosed these in a statement in Abuja on Friday.
He said the armed forces remains focussed and is continuing its counter-insurgency campaign against the terrorists and their cohorts operating across the country.
Hear General Edward Buba: “During the week under review, troops neutralised 109 and arrested 81 persons.
Furthermore, troops recovered 21 assorted weapons and 124 assorted ammunition.”Giving the breakdown of the weapons recovered, he said 9 AK47 rifles, 5 fabricated rifles, 4 dane guns, 3 locally made pistols, 7 magazines, 97 rounds of 7.62mm special ammo, 22 rounds of 7.62mm NATO, 5 live cartridges, 3 baofeng radios, 4 vehicles, 6 motorcycles and 4 mobile phones amongst other items.
MJConcept TV News reports that, troops arrested 6 perpetrators of oil theft and rescued 43 kidnapped hostages.
According to General Buba, troops denied the oil theft of the estimated sum of Six Hundred and Eighteen Million Seven Hundred and Fifty-Six Thousand Four Hundred and Seventy Naira (N618,756,470.00) only in the South South.
He further said that, troops in the Niger Delta area discovered and destroyed 10 crude oil cooking ovens, 10 dugout pits, 12 boats, 4 storage tanks and 10 illegal refining sites. Other items recovered include 3 pumping machines, 12 speedboats, 20 drums, 2 motorcycles, one mobile phone and 4 vehicles among others. Troops recovered 631,709 litres of stolen crude oil, 3,140 litres of illegally refined AGO and 2,250 litres of PMS.
“Troops are sustaining the winning ways of ongoing operational engagements. Accordingly, citizens will continue to witness the incremental effectiveness and efficiency of the armed forces,” he added.