By Gbemiga Olamikan.
Troops operations of the last one week gained successful strength which resulted in neutralizing 67 terrorists with 190 arrested as 57 perpetrators of oil theft arrested while 47 kidnapped hostages were rescued.
This was disclosed by Director Defence Media Operation, Major General Edward Buba in a statement.
General Edward said troops denied oil theft of the estimated sum of Seven Hundred and Twenty-Seven Million Seven Hundred and Eighty-Six Thousand Eight Hundred Naira (N727, 786,800.00) only in the South-south zone of Nigeria.
He further revealed that troops recovered 112 assorted weapons and 989 assorted ammunition which includes, one GT3 rifle, 42 AK47 rifles, 11 locally fabricated rifles, 7 pump action guns, one locally made double barrel, pistols, 3 dane gun, 2 locally made pistols, 342 rounds of 7.62mm NATO ammo, 321 rounds of 7.62mm special ammo, 190 rounds of 7.62 x 51mm NATO, 34 rounds of 9mm ammo, 74 live cartridges.
Others items are: 166 rounds of 7.62mm NATO, empty shells, 27 magazines, 23 vehicles, 33 motorcycles, 31 mobile phones, 5 boafeng radios, 4 bicycles, cutlasses, axes, digital camera and the sum of N3,278,700.00 amongst other items.
Major General Buba disclosed that troops in the Niger Delta area discovered and destroyed 106 dugout pits, 111 boats, 229 storage tanks, 290 cooking ovens, 8 pumping machine, 10 outboard engines, 2 speedboats, one vessel and 96 illegal refining sites as troops recovered 506,500 litres of stolen crude oil, 477,790 liters of illegally refined AGO and 51,000 liters of DPK.
He maintains that military will continue to deny the terrorist, insurgents and violent extremist the ability to achieve their selfish objective, noted that the war is on and their days are numbered, unless they surrender.
