The Defence Headquarters (DHQ), has said that soldiers fighting counter insurgency war and other internal security operations across the country, killed 254 terrorists and arrested 264 others in the last one week.

The Director, Defence Media Operations (DMO), Major General Edward Buba, who made this known, said the soldiers also arrested 104 oil thieves and rescued 73 kidnapped victims.

Buba, while assuring that the armed forces will continue to degrade the ability of terrorists to carry out small scale attacks which are intended to create panic in localities across operational theatres in the country, said the on-going counter terrorism and counter insurgency operations have prevented the terrorists, bandits, kidnappers and other evil elements from accomplishing their strategic objectives.   Gen Buba, in a statement, said troops denied the oil theft of estimated sum of N2 billion in the South South Zone of the country and recovered 378 assorted weapons and 4, 705 assorted ammunition.

He gave the breakdown of the recovered weapons to include: 131 AK47 rifles, two FN rifles, two G3 rifle, three SMGs, 69 locally fabricated guns, 57 pump action guns, seven pistols, 14 locally fabricated pistols, five revolver rifles, four revolver pistols, 45 dane guns, four locally made single barrel, and two hand grenades, seven RPG Launchers, one RPG bomb, one locally made double barrel gun, 17 dane gun double barrel and IEDs.

Others are: 2,444 rounds of 7.62mm special ammo, 1,712 rounds of 7.62mm NATO, 80 rounds of 9mm ammo, 61 rounds of 5.45 x 39mm ammo, six rounds of 0.44 inch ammo, 415 live cartridges, 10 empty cases of cartridges, 11 magazines, 18 vehicles, 40 motorcycles, 74 mobile phones, four baofeng radios and the sum of N748, 430.00 amongst other items.

Source: The Sun