{"id":112144,"date":"2024-05-25T14:59:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T13:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=112144"},"modified":"2024-05-25T14:59:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T13:59:37","slug":"9300-bandits-killed-83900-ammunitions-recovered-in-one-year-defence-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/9300-bandits-killed-83900-ammunitions-recovered-in-one-year-defence-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"9,300 bandits killed, 83,900 ammunitions recovered in one year-Defence Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1800029296664122075\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Bayo Davids<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">A total of 9,300 bandits were killed in the last one year while 4,641 kidnapped victims were rescued by the combined effort of the security agencies, Minister of Defence, Abubakar Badaru has said.<br \/>\nBadaru who disclosed this at a Ministerial Sectoral Briefing to mark the one year anniversary of President Bola Tinubu in office also noted that the troops fighting insecurity in the country, recovered about 4,882 sundry weapons and 83, 900 ammunitions in the period under review.<br \/>\nHe attributed the success to the synergy among the security agencies in the war against insurgency and banditry.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cBecause of the synergy, we were able to neutralize more than 9,300 bandits and insurgents. About 7,000 were arrested when we rescued 4,641 kidnapped victims in just one year. We also recovered 4,882 assorted weapons and 83,900 ammunitions just in one year. And among those that we neutralized are bandits that command hundreds of foot soldiers.Alika Waji, Damina, Ishiaku Bature and Sani Dangote have all been neutralized. In all, we neutralized over 20 commanders in the last one year.\u201d<br \/>\nCommending the service chiefs for the dedication to duty, Badaru, the immediate past Governor of Jigawa State said, \u201cThe Chief of Defence Staff, the Chief of Army Staff, the Chief Naval Staff and the Chief of Air Staff are working together day and night as against what used to be in the past which was hampering productivity and efficiency in operation.<br \/>\n\u201cIn addition to the military, we have a close collaboration with the office of the National Security Adviser, the Police, the Civil Defence and all other paramilitary and security enhancing agencies. This has translated to tremendous progress during this last one year in view.<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that as a result of improved security, oil production in the country has improved compared to the past few years.<br \/>\nHe continued, \u201cWe were able to arrest 1,437 people, neutralized 363 and we have freed in the Niger Delta 245 that were held hostage.<br \/>\n\u201cWe destroyed 3,051 dug pits for illegal crude production. We destroyed 1,276 boats and 3,924 storage facilities. We arrested and destroyed 408 vehicles and 2,716 cooking oils and most of the illegal refineries are down now.<br \/>\n\u201cAdditionally, major vessels have been arrested. Vessels like Swift, Harbor spirit, MT Senel, MT Kito and many others and this has helped greatly to improve our crude oil production and this is because of the synergy that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu enjoined us to work with to deliver and end insecurity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the Ministry is working with regional security agencies and other countries of the world to address the security situation in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs at today, we are conducting Operation Dessert Sani III and Lake Sani II with the Republic of Chad, Cameroon and some representatives from Benin Republic. And this shows how we collaborate with neigbouring states to fight insurgency,\u201d he said, even as he appreciated the President Tinubu-led government for providing incentives to enhance the operational efficiency of the troops.<br \/>\n\u201cThe President is supporting the troops to enhance their capacity. You are all aware that the 2023 supplementary budget brought huge allocation to the Ministry of Defence; thanks to Mr President.\u00a0 This has helped us to procure and upgrade a lot of our equipment.<br \/>\n\u201cYou are also aware that the president signed the DICON bill that is helping us to produce locally what we need in the fight against insurgency and criminality in this country,\u201d he added.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bayo Davids A total of 9,300 bandits were killed in the last one year while 4,641 kidnapped victims were rescued by the combined effort of the security agencies, Minister&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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