The Nigerian military troops have neutralised 113 terrorists and arrested 300 other criminal elements in the last two weeks.
The troops also arrested 25 perpetrators of oil theft and rescued 91 kidnapped hostages while denying oil theft of the estimated sum of N571,793,350.00 in the South-South region.
Director, Defence Media Operations, DMO, Major-General Edward Buba, disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday, while briefing the media on the ongoing operations aimed at containing insecurity and other criminal activities in the country.
Mr Buba said the troops recovered 129 assorted weapons and 717 assorted ammunition during the operations.
The recovered arms and ammunition, Major-General Buba said, include: “one Unserviceable AA gun, one RPG tube, 5 RPG bombs, one GT3 rifle, 54 AK47 rifles, 8 locally fabricated rifles, one locally made rifle, 2 pistols, 2 pump action guns, 2 Dane guns, 4 locally fabricated pistol, 3 skeletons of AK47 rifles, 9 hand grenades, one unserviceable AK47 rifle, 14 magazines, 321 rounds of 7.62mm special ammo, 40 live cartridges.
“53 rounds of 5.45mm x 39mm ammo, 35 rounds of 7.62mm NATO, 100 rounds of shotgun, 11 rifle body, 7 breech blocks, 7 rifle butts, 8 rifle muzzles, 9 piston assemblies, 210 springs, one drilling machine, hand filling machines, 10 magazine purges, IED making materials, 4 baofeng radios, 15 motorcycles, 20 mobile phones and the sum of N348,200.00 amongst other items.”
In the Niger Delta area, Major-General Buba said the troops uncovered and destroyed 76 dugout pits, 35 boats, 95 storage tanks, 10 vehicles, 129 cooking ovens, 5 pumping machines, 13 speedboats, 6 outboard engines, one vessel, 3 motorcycles and 49 illegal refining sites.
“Troops recovered 514,640 litres of stolen crude oil, 339,315 litres of illegally refined AGO and 775 litres of DPK,” he added.
