November 11, (THEWILL) – The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Thursday said 1,186 of Boko Haram terrorists and their families surrendered to troops of Operation Hadin Kai at different locations in the North-east in the last two weeks.
The military also said its troops killed 49 insurgents and criminals, and arrested 71 others, including two female logistics suppliers, 19-year-old Aisha Umar, mother of a two-year-old child, and 20-year-old Kaltumi Bakura, residents at IDP camp in Bama.
The director, Defence Media Operations (DMO), Brig.-Gen Benard Onyeuko, who stated this in Abuja while briefing journalists on military operations across the country, said troops also recued 97 kidnapped civilians and recovered 122 assorted weapons.
He also said troops ofbOperation Delta Safe conducting land, maritime and air operations to forestall activities of economic saboteurs and other criminal elements in the South-south zone have discovered and demobilised over 20 illegal refining sites, 62 ovens, 12 cooking pots/boilers, 8 cooling systems, 19 reservoirs, 18 large dugout pits and 88 storage tanks.
He said, “Cumulatively, troops discovered and immobilized a total of 20 illegal refining sites. Additionally, eight criminal elements, including two impostors were arrested and seven arms and three rounds of ammunition, among other items, were recovered in the course of the operations in the zone.
“Additionally, troops rescued 13 kidnapped civilians within the period. Consequently, a total of one million, two hundred and three thousand, two hundred and fifty litres (1,252,250ltrs) of illegally refined AGO and one million, one hundred and thirty-eight thousand, three hundred and forty litres (1,140,340ltrs) of stolen crude were recovered in the course of the operations.
“Furthermore, troops neutralized three armed robbers and rescued 2 kidnapped civilians; while five criminal elements associated with pipeline vandalism, piracy, illegal oil bunkering and armed robbery were arrested within the period.”
He said both kinetic and non-kinetic efforts of the Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) and other security agencies in the fight against criminalities across the country are achieving significant results, adding that the military will not relent nor rest on its oars in the fight against crime in all parts of the country.
