By Linus Aleke, Abuja
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ), on Thursday told the rampaging terrorists across the federation to surrender to its troops in the interest of peace and tranquility or be killed.
It also noted that the armed forces of Nigeria will continue to fulfill its mission of hunting and destroying terrorist and their cohorts across the country in the most professional manner.
Director Defence Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba, made this call during the DHQ’s biweekly briefing on operational activities of the Nigerian military and other security agencies across the country.
He said: “Needless to mention, these terrorist are left with only two choices which is to either be killed die or surrender. Since the beginning of the year. Several terrorists and their leaders have been killed or badly injured owing to offensive actions by both land and air forces”.
Troops, he said, are continuing their actions even at this very moment and we are proud of them and appreciate their brave conduct.
“Even though it might not seem that way due to recent events across the country. The fact remains that, our goal is to restore peace and security for citizens to have an enjoyable life. We will continue to do that in-spite of the current circumstances,” the Director said.
Troops, he noted, will continue fighting with great effort, determination and sacrifice to bring about great results.
This is as he said that in January alone, troops killed no fewer than 266 terrorists, arrested 463 violent extremists/insurgents and rescued 116 kidnapped hostages.
Troops, he added, recovered 447 assorted weapons and 6,697 assorted ammunitions, within the said period across all theatres.
Gen. Buba said that troops operating in the South South zone, denied the oil thieves, of an estimated sum of two billion, eight hundred and twenty one million, five hundred and three thousand, nine hundred and sixty two Naira.
He added that 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 amongst other item, were also confiscated from perpetrators of oil theft.
