War against militants enters Day 4 as military sustains bombardment of Lagos, Ogun creeks
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There seems to be end in sight to the activities of militants, who have been terrorising Lagos and Ogun creeks.
This is evident in the continued bombardment of their hideouts by government troops as what started like a one-off operation on Thursday entered day-four yesterday.
DAILY POST gathered that the ongoing operation involves Nigerian Navy, the Nigerian Air Force, the Nigerian Army, the Department of State Services, DSS, the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps and the Nigeria Police Force.
Deploying aerial and land arsenals, the military has dealt severe blows to the criminals that have long engaged in vices like pipeline vandalism, robbery, murder, rape and kidnapping.
On Sunday, troops rained more shelling on Ishawo, Igando and Igbolomu areas of Ikorodu in Lagos State, and Arepo, Awawa, Elepete and Ibafo in Ogun State.
The latest operation, which saw the use of three fighter jets, among others, led to the rescue of abducted persons kept at the creeks.
Also, as at Sunday morning, the operatives of the DSS were said to have been able to track the petrol stations that were being supplied with the stolen products, with some of them said to be on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.
Reacting, spokesman of the Defence Headquarters, Brigadier General Rabe Abubakar, assured that no innocent resident has been hit by the air raid.
Abubakar said: “There is no way innocent persons would be hit because what we are doing is ‘precision attack on registered target or identified location’.
“No innocent Nigerian was hit. The attack is on the criminals who hide in the creeks.
“We are still carrying out the raid. We are not carrying out military attack on Ijaw.
“We are carrying out the operation against criminals. We don’t tag them.
“Militants are militants. We don’t want to know if they are Hausa, Igbo or Yoruba.
“Our war is against pipeline vandals and oil thieves,” he said.
