BREAKING: Scores Of Bandits Shot Dead

Scores of bandits have been shot dead.

EKOHOTBLOG reports that the Acting Director, Defence Media Operation, Brig.-Gen. Benard Onyeuko, has said that over 40 bandits have been shot dead in the North West region of the country.

Onyeuko made this known at the Defence Headquarters in Abuja on Thursday while giving updates on the activities of troops across all theatres of operations between October 1 and October 13, 2021.

The Acting Director stated that the bandits were gunned down by the troops during an operation carried out in forests within Sokoto and Kaduna States.

He further revealed how several structures which served as bandits’ logistics bases were destroyed, adding that the operations became imperative in order to ensure that impending security threats are forestalled across Nigeria.

Onyeuko said within the two weeks under review, using a force package of NAF platforms, multiple air strikes were executed on bandits’ enclaves in successive passes in different locations.

“In the same vein, several armed bandits were neutralised and their hideouts destroyed during air interdiction missions executed at some other locations. The success of the air interdictions was confirmed by battle damage assessment carried out on these locations,” he added.

While speaking on the recently launched military exercises running concurrently in the South-West, South-South, South-East and North Central zones of the country, the senior military officer said the military high command has resolved to checkmate all forms of security vices as the yuletide season approaches.

EKOHOTBLOG recalls that the three exercises were launched by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya, on October 4, 2021, at Ovie-Emene in Enugu East Local Government Area of Enugu State.

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The exercises codenamed Golden Dawn, Enduring Peace, and Still Water are running concurrently precisely in the 2 Division, 6 Division, 81 Division and 82 Division of the Nigerian Army.

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