The Defence Headquarters on Friday said in the last week no fewer than 50 terrorists were killed while 122 were arrested.
This was contained in a statement by the Director of Defence Media Operation, Maj. Gen. Buba Edward.
He said, “The operations of the last one week, resulted in 50 neutralized terrorists with 122 of them arrested. Troops also arrested 49 perpetrators of oil theft and rescued 182 kidnapped hostages. “
The DHQ said the troops would not stop applying strong pressure on the terrorists as it had currently done in the various theaters of operations.
It partly read, “The armed forces will continue to apply strong military pressure such as has been witnessed in the week. The terrorist and their cohorts would continue to suffer heavy casualties. It is in their interest to surrender as being done in the NE of the country to avoid eventual destruction.”
He said, “The operations of the last one week, resulted in 50 neutralized terrorists with 122 of them arrested. Troops also arrested 49 perpetrators of oil theft and rescued 182 kidnapped hostages. “
He also said N128m worth of crude products were recovered from oil thieves in the South-South region.
