Defence Headquarters has reiterated its commitment to continue to recruit, train, deploy and solidify its efforts at ending terrorism and insurgency across the country.
The Director Defence Media Operations, DMO, Major General Edward Buba, who stated this while clarifying issues at a press briefing on the ongoing military operations, said, perpetrators of the insurgency and terrorist 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 DMO, 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 that during the course of operations in the week under review, the military neutralized one hundred and fifty-one terrorists, arrested four hundred and fifty-six terrorists and forty-five perpetrators of oil theft.
The troops also rescued seventy six kidnapped hostages and denied oil theft of the sum of One Billion, Eleven Million Eight Hundred and Fifty-One Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Naira.
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