Director of Defence Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba made the disclosure in Abuja during a bi-Weekly briefing on the ongoing operations across the theatre. He explained that the aggression of the Nigerian troops across various theatres of Operation since the beginning of the year culminated in neutralizing 8,034.
General Buba also noted that troops have since the beginning of the year been confronted by different threats in five active theatres of operations across the country, namely; North East, North West, North Central, South South and South East.
As according to him, troops adopted
a high level of alert and an increased state of readiness to protect the country from further terrorists aggression and insecurity.
He said that the armed forces is constant in examining ways to improve the effectiveness of its operations and guarantee the safety of citizens, Buba disclosed that troops recovered 8,216 weapons, 211,459 ammunition and denied the oil theft of an estimated sum over #57 bn (N57,052,218,551.00) only.
Maj. Gen. Edward Buba
Source:dopereporters.com
