{"id":131540,"date":"2024-09-20T23:29:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T22:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/troops-neutralise-159-terrorists-in-nigeria"},"modified":"2024-09-21T00:34:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T23:34:50","slug":"troops-neutralise-159-terrorists-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/troops-neutralise-159-terrorists-in-nigeria","title":{"rendered":"Troops neutralise 159 terrorists in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, said on Friday that troops eliminated 159 terrorists and apprehended about 174 others in the past week.<\/p>\n<p>The Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj Gen Edward Buba, disclosed this in Abuja while giving an update on armed forces\u2019 operations across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Buba said troops also rescued 188 kidnapped hostages, apprehended 45 perpetrators of oil theft, and recovered 151 assorted weapons and 12,401 assorted ammunition within the period.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the armed forces had taken resolute steps towards ending terrorism and insecurity in the country through ongoing operations.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the operations are yielding the desired results as troops dismantle terrorist networks and decimate their leadership and combatants, with several of the terrorist leaders and commanders eliminated from the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurthermore, troops are strategically deployed to ensure that the off-cycle governorship election scheduled for September 21 in Edo is violence-free, fair, and credible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTroops\u2019 role is to support the police to ensure voters\u2019 safety and security, and to thwart the activities of those elements bent on fomenting crises during the elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur operations against terrorists and violent extremists remain aimed at providing security and stability for the nation and its citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTroops will therefore continue to be relentless in pursuit of ending all forms of insecurity across the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, said on Friday that troops eliminated 159 terrorists and apprehended about 174 others in the past week. The Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj Gen Edward Buba, disclosed this in Abuja while giving an update on armed forces\u2019 operations across the country. 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