Major General Edward Buba the Director of Media Operations of the Defence Headquarters in Abuja briefed journalists on achievements/successes on the ongoing war against terrorists around the country throughout year 2024.
He explained that the Nigeria troops have since the beginning of the year been confronted by different threats in five active theatres of operations across the North-East, North+West, North-Central, South-East, South-South and South-West of the country. That a high level of alert and an increased state of readiness to protect the country from further terrorist aggression and insecurity is on top gear.THat troops aggression across the various theatres of Operation since the beginning of the year culminated in 8,034 neutralized terrorists, 11,623 arrest and 6,376 rescued hostages. Furthermore, troops recovered 8,216 weapons, 211,459 ammunitions and denied the oil theft of an estimated sum over 57 billion naira (N57,052,218,551.00) only.
General Buba highlighted the breakdown of the recoveries are as follows: 4,053 AK47 rifles, 1,123 locally fabricated guns, 731 dane guns and 240 pump action guns. Others are; 120,247 rounds of 7.62mm special ammo, 41,515 rounds of 7.62mm NATO, 5,373 cartridges, 1,940 assorted arms and 25,664 assorted ammunitions. That troops recovered: 53,101,430 litres of stolen crude oil, 9,179,181 litres of illegally refined AGO and 90,595 litres of DPK. Others are; 156,095 litres of PMS amongst other items.
"Overall, the military is keeping up the pressure through ongoing operations in the various theatres across the country. The military is through these operations, increasingly creating conditions in which terrorist can not carry out acts of terror or harm citizens" he said.
He then concluded that the armed forces is constantly examining ways to improve the effectiveness of its operations and guarantee the safety of citizens. Relatedly, operations are on an upward trajectory to winning the war.
