{"id":69353,"date":"2024-03-11T16:01:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T16:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=69353"},"modified":"2024-03-11T16:01:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T16:01:53","slug":"troops-eliminate-ipob-operatives-clear-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=69353","title":{"rendered":"Troops eliminate IPOB operatives, clear camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Troops have eliminated persons they described as 20 IPOB\/ESN terrorists and destroyed 50 of their hideout tents in South-East region of the country, a News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports says.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a statement on Sunday, the Director of Defence Media Operations (DDMO), Defence Headquarters (DHQ), Abuja, Maj-Gen Edward Buba disclosed that the combined troops of Operation UDO KA with Nigeria Police, Department of State Security Service and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps conducted a raid\/clearance operations to the IPOB\/ESN violent extremists\/terrorists in Mother Valley, Orsu LGA of Imo State.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to him, the team\u00a0 cleared about 50 IPOB\/ESN hideout tents in the valley including terrorists Supreme Headquarters and their Command and Control Centre as well as its Military Council Headquarters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Buba said troops also, cleared Buteuzor\u2019s hideout\/residence office, logistic base, temple and shrine. The hideouts was well concealed with foliage that affords the criminals cover from air surveillance in order to prevent monitoring and detection.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said,\u201dThe Valley had sufficient power supply for the camps. The terrorist hibernating there, reared animals and also owned farms in order to be self sustaining to live and fight.\u00a0 During the operations, troops also encountered several command IEDs and ditches\u00a0 along the axis to the camp.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAll were detonated and ditches covered with excavator\u00a0 before reaching\u00a0 the camp. The location is identified to be the supreme headquarters, command and control centre as well as the Military Council Headquarters of IPOB\/ESN.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the operations, troops made contact with terrorists. Following a fire fight, troops neutralized 20 terrorists and recovered several quantities of assorted weapons such as G3 rifles, AK47 rifles,\u00a0 auto pump action guns, double barrel guns,\u00a0 locally made pistols and RPG bombs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Gen. Buba also said troops recovered assorted ammunition destroyed all camps, hideouts and shrines in the location.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTroops also recovered assorted ammunition which include 226 rounds of 7.62mm special ammo, 216 rounds of 7.62mm NATO, 172 live cartridges, 4 AK47 magazines and 3 G3 magazines. Others items recovered\u00a0 include: several quantities of IEDs (OGBUNIGWE), POS devices, baofeng radios, mobile phones,\u00a0 handheld IEDs, CCTV cameras, inverter and batteries. Additional items include,Biafra flags amongst others.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTroops destroyed all camps, hideouts and shrines in the location. The location was also litter with shallow graves indicative of Idol worshipping and ritual killings. The ritual killings at the camp accounts for the several cases of missing persons in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe recovered items are being processed and analyzed for their intelligence value. Nevertheless, troops are sustaining the momentum and going in pursuit of the terrorists and their cohorts, dislodging them from their enclaves,\u201d he stated.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Troops have eliminated persons they described as 20 IPOB\/ESN terrorists and destroyed 50 of their hideout tents in South-East region of the country, a News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports says. In a statement on Sunday, the Director of Defence Media Operations (DDMO), Defence Headquarters (DHQ), Abuja, Maj-Gen Edward Buba disclosed that the combined troops […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":58612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[328,6570,6571],"class_list":["post-69353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ipob","tag-orsu","tag-tents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}