Armed Forces Of Nigeria Reitterates Commitment To Safeguarding Citizenry
Princess-Ekwi Ajide Abuja
Director, Defence Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba, says the military in Nigeria is working actively to achieve one of the top priorities which is to secure the country and protect citizens from harm caused by terrorist and extremist across the country.
Major General Buba who was speaking on the ongoing insurgency and counter-terrorism military operations across the country in Abuja, noted that the operations led by the armed forces have killed or captured several terrorists, extremist leaders, their facilitators, key associates and many of their foot soldiers.
According to him, the ongoing operations recently embarked upon have thrown the criminal elements into complete disarray due to the precision of the operations leaving both the terrorists and extremists perplexed and suffocated with little or no hiding place.
He revealed that several arrests and discoveries were made following the operation conducted by the military targeted at the residence of an ISWAP terrorist commander in Niger State.
Major General Buba, stated that the operations of the last one week, resulted in 73 neutralized terrorists with 182 of them arrested while 14 perpetrators of oil theft were arrested and 68 kidnapped hostages were rescued.
He said that troops recovered 119 assorted weapons and 1,537 assorted ammunition and denied oil theft the estimated sum of One billion ,two Hundred and Twelve Million Forty Six Thousand One Hundred and Forty Naira (N1, 212,046,140.00).
While stating that the ongoing counter terrorism and counter insurgency operations have prevented the criminal elements from accomplishing their strategic objectives, He cautioned that the military will continue to degrade their ability to carry out small scale attacks which are intended to create panic in localities.
