The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Thursday, said the military operations across the country have killed 36 terrorists, arrested 137 criminals, and rescued 140 within 2 weeks.
The Director, Defence Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba, disclosed this at the biweekly press briefing in Abuja.
He said during operations, the troops arrested 3 gunrunners, 2 kidnappers, 6 collaborators, 15 perpetrators of oil theft and recovered the sum of N3,177,650.00.
General Buba reiterates that men and women of the Armed Forces have answered a call to duty to fight the perpetrators of these evil to submission, adding that, “We are in a good fight, and must flush them out from amongst us.”
He said during the weeks in review, “troops recovered a total number of 37 weapons and 370 ammunition, 16 Ak47 rifles, 6 pump action guns, 6 dane guns, 3 fabricated rifles, 2 locally made pistol, 199 rounds of 7.62mm special, 6 rounds of 7.62mm NATO, 9 AK47 magazines and 2 G3 magazines, 8 vehicles, 45 motorcycles, 32 mobile phones, 925 machetes, 151 machete sharpeners.
“Others include, 61 dugout pits, 32 wooden boats, 87 storage tanks, one speedboat, 32 cooking ovens, 3 outboard engine, one generator, 2 pumping machines, 36 illegal refining sites, 310,700 litres of stolen crude oil, 14,675 litres Automotive Gas Oil, 49,000 Dual Purpose Kerosine and 5 litres of Premium Motor Spirit”, he said.
