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No less than 9,303 person been killed, 6,998 arrested and 9,562 Boko Haram/ISWAP combatant fighters and their families surrendered to information forces successful the past year.
The Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Edward Buba, made this known during the associated briefing by Security, Defence and Response agencies organised by the Strategic Communications Interagency Policy Committee nether the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) connected Thursday successful Abuja.
Buba said the troops besides rescued nary less than 4,641 hostages, portion 1,437 suspected lipid thieves were apprehended wrong the play nether review.
According to him, troops killed 363 criminals and rescued 245 kidnapped hostages successful the Niger Delta Region wrong the period.
Buba said the Nigerian Police Force wrong the twelvemonth apprehended 4,796-armed robbery suspects, 3,068 kidnapping suspects and 2,474 suspects for rape/sexual crimes.
He added that 1,213 suspects were apprehended for unlawful possession of firearms, 3,523 suspected cultists, 3,381 suspects for murder/homicide, and 13,382 suspects for different offences.
According to him, the constabulary rescued 1,713 kidnapping victims and recovered 1,465 vehicles/motorcycles, 2,566 firearms and 19,310 rounds of ammunition.
Buba said the constabulary prosecuted 29,052 cases wrong the twelvemonth and secured the condemnation of 16,200 suspects.
He gave the breakdown of prosecuted cases arsenic “7,675 cases conclusively dispensed, 11,376 suspects are presently undergoing trial, 51 cases are nether entreaty successful appellate courts, and 16,200 cases resulted successful the condemnation of suspects who person received assorted punishments for their transgression acts.
Buba said the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), connected the different hand, foiled 48 attacks and kidnapping attempts connected schools and dismantled implicit 1,975 amerciable mining sites crossed the country.
He added that 165 amerciable section refineries were uncovered and dismantled wrong the play nether review.
“Relatedly, the Nigeria Customs Service generated exceptional gross of astir N4 trillion.
“National information and anti-smuggling efforts led to important seizures of contraband goods, amerciable arms, and narcotics.
“The agencies recovered implicit 21,000 pump enactment cartridges, 440 pump enactment rifles, and 228,741 rounds of ammunition and, prevented imaginable attacks by recovering termination jackets and lethal weapons.
“Criminal activities involving illicit petroleum products were disrupted, with 50,000 illicit litres impounded,” helium said.
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