Troops Deny Oil Thieves Over 128 Million Naira In One Week
Princess-Ekwi Ajide Abuja
The Director Defence Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba, says, the ongoing counter insurgency and counter terrorism operations across the country in the past onw week has resulted in 50 neutralized terrorists with 122 of them arrested.
He said also within the week under review, troops also arrested 49 perpetrators of oil theft and rescued 182 kidnapped hostages
According to Major General Buba, troops in the South South Region, denied oil thieves the estimated sum of One Hundred Twenty Eight Million Sixty Six Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Five Naira (N128,066,825.00) adding that troops also recovered 66 assorted weapons and 11,474 assorted ammunition
He disclosed that troops in the Niger Delta area destroyed 242 dugout pits, 49 boats, 78 storage tanks, one tricycle, 21 vehicles, 104 cooking ovens, 3 pumping machine, 7 outboard engine and 49 illegal refining sites.
The DMO said troops recovered 151,850 litres of stolen crude oil, 48,630 litres of illegally refined AGO and 10,125 litres of DPK.
He stressed that the armed forces will continue to apply strong military pressure such as has been witnessed in the week and terrorists and their cohorts will continue to suffer heavy casualities.
Major General Buba, urged terrorists in the region that it is in their interest to surrender as being done in the North East Region of the country to avoid eventual destruction as the armed forces is on course with its operations.