The Defence Headquarters Friday says troops deployed to different theatres of operations across the country neutralised 106 terrorists and apprehended103 others.
The military high command also said troops also arrested 22 perpetrators of oil theft and rescued 96 kidnapped hostages.
Director defence media operations Major General Edward Buba who disclosed this in a statement Friday, said in the south south, troops denied the oil theft of the estimated sum of Seven Hundred and and Fifty Four Million One Hundred and Forty Nine Thousand and Six Hundred Naira (N754,149,600.00) only.
General Buba said troops have continued a manhunt for the perpetrators of the barbaric killing of 18 soldiers that occurred on 14 Mar 24.
“Accordingly, clearance operations as well as cordon and search were conducted to among other things recover the weapons of the deceased soldiers,” he said.
He disclosed that some of the communities in which troops have operates include: “Akugbene, Ukuama and Okoloba Communities in Ugheli and Ugheli South of Delta State. Others are; Ukuama Amusamo, Akwagbe, Arhavwarien,Pirigbene and Igbomatoro Communities all in Delta State.
“ The decomposing hearts of some of the killed soldiers were recovered during search, while the manhunt container with no significant arrest yet made.”
He said troops recovered 171 assorted weapons and 2,452 assorted ammunition from different theatres of operations.
According to him, he breakdown as follows: “47 AK47 rifles, one PKT gun, 18 pump action rifles, 17 locally fabricated guns, 14 dane guns, 12 locally fabricated pistols, one fabricated revolver, one hand grenade, 81mm mortar bomb, one mortar tube and 4 bandoliers
“Others are 995 rounds of 7.62mm special ammo, 468 rounds of 7.62mm NATO, 317 live cartridges, 125 rounds of 9mm ammo, 313 rounds of 7.62 x 54mm ammo, 13 rounds of 7.62 x 51mm, 19 rounds of 7.62 x 39mm, 167 empty shells of 7.62mm special ammo, 45 empty shells of 7.62mm NATO, 72 empty cases of cartridges, 14 magazines, 10 vehicles, 23 motorcycles, 19 mobile phones, one bicycles, 4 baofeng radios, and the sum of N112,920.00 amongst other items.”
