The Nigerian military said its troops killed 102 terrorists and criminals, rescued 397 kidnapped victims and arrested 345 suspected terrorists and criminals during operations conducted across the country in July.
The Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj. Gen. Michael Onoja, disclosed this on Friday while presenting the operational scorecard of the Armed Forces for July.
Onoja said troops also recovered 59 firearms and 1,811 rounds of ammunition during the period, while 57 insurgents and their family members surrendered.
He said one of the military’s major breakthroughs during the month was the surrender of a senior finance operative of the Islamic State West Africa Province, describing the development as evidence of mounting pressure on terrorist enclaves in the North-East.
Giving a breakdown of operations in the North-East, Onoja said troops of Operation Hadin Kai sustained coordinated land and air offensives against Boko Haram, ISWAP and Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad across Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno and Yobe states.
