The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, has advised terrorists, bandits and kidnappers to surrender or be killed, warning that there is no third option.
The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Edward
Buba gave the warning on Thursday in Abuja at the bi-weekly news briefing on
the operations of the armed forces.
Buba said several terrorists and their leaders were killed
or badly injured owing to offensive actions by land and air forces in various
theatres of operation across the country.
He said the troops had in the month of January, neutralised 266 terrorists, arrested 463, and rescued 116 kidnapped hostages.
The defence spokesman added that a total of 447 assorted
weapons and 6,697 ammunitions, comprising 237 AK47 rifles, 26 locally
fabricated guns, 18 pump action guns, 55 Dane guns, and 6,807 rounds of 7.62mm
special ammo, were recovered.
Other items recovered, according to him, are 421 rounds of
7.62mm NATO, 16 rounds of 9mm and 506 live cartridges.
In the South-South, Buba said the troops recovered 1,832,150
litres of stolen crude oil, 523,799 litres of illegally refined AGO, 16,716
litres of DPK and 5,200 litres of PMS among others.
According to him, the troops have denied the oil thieves of
an estimated N2.8 billion.
“I urge all segments of society to take examples from our
gallant troops in the frontlines fighting to achieve the goal of liquidating
terrorists and insurgents across the country in order to restore peace and
security.
“These men and women are from all the nooks and crannies of
our country and act shoulder to shoulder as a united force to achieve a common
cause of destroying camps of violence in the country,’’ he said.
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General Edward Buba, you are just funny. Sometimes i ask if these guys are really military officers ready to combat crimes. You are begging terrorists to surrender. You are a joke.
ReplyDeleteNo serious nation would ever ask terrorists to surrender or they will be crushed. Terrorists don’t give warnings to their captives that they will come after them. They are meant to kill innocent people and bear the consequences. They humiliate and decimate families. Only weak countries give terrorists warnings, it’s shameful that Nigeria is unable to wipe out these criminals after years of fighting. Look at Mali, he was confronted with terrorism, and today, he has been able to dislodge them and , the country is peaceful. How can the Nigeria military crush these terrorists formation with the type of weapons in the possession to be used against them. Terrorists groups are sometimes more equipped than our military. This’s so because of corruption in the army
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