Military operations by the Armed Forces of Nigeria to rid the country of terrorists, bandits, kidnapper and other criminal elements have yielded in the big catch of dangerous weapons from the bandits, reports page3news.com.ng
Page3news.com.ng reports that the Defence Media Operations Director, Major General Edward Buba disclosed on Thursday that the large haul of dangerous weapons was a determined bid to ensure the terrorists are defeated.
According to General Buba, “these groups that seek to derail progress towards peace and security in the country must be defeated.”
- Director, Defence Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba, briefing the Press…on Thursday in Abuja
While briefing the Press on the efforts of the military troops in the past one week, said “There is no doubt that these groups must be defeated and are indeed being defeated.
It is for these reasons we are inflicting severe damage on the terrorists, insurgents and violent extremist through our operations across the country. Accordingly, we are targeting their leadership, infrastructure and foot soldiers.
The coordination between the air and ground forces is like never seen before and yielding amazing results and achievements. We are expecting new platforms that would further enhance our capabilities to further root out the terrorists and destroy their military capabilities.
The operations of the last one week resulted in 113 neutralized terrorists with 300 of them arrested.
Furthermore, troops recovered 129 assorted weapons and 717 assorted ammunition.”
Giving the breakdown, General Buba said one Unserviceable AA gun, one RPG tube, 5 RPG bombs, one GT3 rifle, 54 AK47 rifles and 8 locally fabricated rifles were recovered from the terrorists.
Other weapons recovered include one locally made rifle, 2 pistols, 2 pump action guns, 2 dane guns, 4 locally fabricated pistol, 3 skeleton 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 short gun, 11 rifle body, 7 breech block, 7 rifle butts, 8 rifle muzzles, 9 piston assembles, 210 springs, one drilling machine, hand filling machines, 10 magazine purges, IED making materials, 4 boafeng radios, 15 motorcycles, 20 mobile phones and the sum of N348,200.00 amongst other items.