The Nigerian Military has assured Nigerians that its troops have done a tremendous job of significantly dismantling the terror groups across the Country, in various theatres of operations.
The Director of Defence Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba drop the hint in a Press Conference on Thursday 7th November, 2024 on the ongoing Military Operations by the Armed Forces of Nigeria for the Month of October, 2024.
He said the strategy is to undermine the ability of these terror groups and their cohorts. He also stated that troops conducted simultaneous strikes on several terrorist enclaves and hideouts across the country. He said the Air Force carried out bombardments and air interdiction on these terrorist hideouts and enclaves with precision, thereby diminishing the fighting capabilities of these terrorist.
In his words “Truly, the terrorist knows that they cannot match our military strength. The options open to them is to surrender or be killed in the battlefield.
Accordingly, some terrorist leaders, commanders and combatants have indicated to surrender. We are opening a surrendering corridor for that purpose”He disclosed that in October 2024, troops neutralized 481 terrorists. Other details are that, troops arrested 741 persons including terrorist. Troops also rescued 492 kidnapped hostages.
He said troops also recovered 480 weapons and 9,026 assorted ammunition, while they denied the oil theft of an estimated sum of close to #4 bn (N3,896,400.960.00) only.”Breakdown for the month of October includes and is not limited to the following: 263 AK47 rifles, 81 locally fabricated guns, 91 dane guns, 76 pump action guns, 5,683 rounds of 7.62mm special ammo, 1,944 rounds of 7.62mm NATO, 642 cartridges, 160 assorted arms and 1,526 assorted ammunition. Others are 3,226,645 litres of stolen crude oil, 763,860 litres of illegally refined AGO and 12,690 litres of PMS amongst other item.
“On the whole, even as the armed forces mourn the tragic passing away of the COAS, Lt Gen TA Lagbaja. We will not allow his passing to derail our focus to destroy the terrorists. We are rather inspired by his actions on the battlefield as a war commander as well as his strong desire to defeat the terrorist in order to end the war. “Accordingly, the military will continue work decisively to kill the terrorists, stop the insecurity in the nation and ensure the safety of citizens. The armed forces remains in a good and strong position in this war, and will win this war.
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