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Sit At Home: Defence Headquarters Promises Continuous Engagement 

Sit At Home: Defence Headquarters Promises Continuous Engagement 

Princess-Ekwi Ajide  Abuja

Defence Headquarters has reitterated its commitment to continue to recruit, train, deploy and solidify its efforts at ending terrorism and insurgency accross the country not minding whose ox is gored.

The Director Defence Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba, who stated this while clarifying issues at a press briefing on the ongoing military operations, said perpetrators of terrorist and insurgency activities are using it as a guise for their personal gain through illegal mining and other unlawful activities

The briefing, which focused on activities of the military in the past one week, reflected the commitment of the military to end terrorism and insurgency in the country as various operational activities showcased success in the anti-terrorism story.

According to the Defence spokesperson, the upsurge in anti-illegal oil bunkering operations by troops of Operation DELTA SAFE in the South-South Region has yielded desirable outcomes as indicated by the appreciable improvement in the country’s daily crude production.

He said during the course of operations in the week under review, the military neutralized 151 terrorists, arrested 456 terrorists and arrested 45 perpetrators of oil theft.

Troops also rescued 76 kidnapped hostages and denied oil thieves of the sum of One Billion, Eleven Million Eight Hundred and Fifty One Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Naira (N1,011,851,250) only.

Major General Buba, promised that the armed forces will remain focused in the conduct of its operations in support of national security interests and that the priority of their operations is the protection of the citizens as well as villages, towns and cities from the violence of terrorists and other violent extremist groups.

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