The Defence Headquarters on Friday ordered the bandits and criminal elements terrorising the country to either surrender to the troops or risk destruction.
The DHQ said the troops would not stop applying strong pressure on the terrorists as it had currently done in the various theaters of operations.
This was contained in a statement by the Director of Defence Media Operation, Maj. Gen. Buba Edward.
The statement read, “The armed forces will continue to apply strong military pressure such as has been witnessed in the week. The terrorist and their cohorts would continue to suffer heavy casualties. It is in their interest to surrender as being done in the NE of the country to avoid eventual destruction.”
Buba highlighted that in the preceding week, a minimum of 50 terrorists were eliminated, and 122 were apprehended.
He said, “The operations of the last one week, resulted in 50 neutralized terrorists with 122 of them arrested. Troops also arrested 49 perpetrators of oil theft and rescued 182 kidnapped hostages. “
He additionally mentioned the retrieval of crude products valued at N128 million from oil thieves in the South-South region.