Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Brigadier General Bernard Onyeuko stated that this includes some members of families of the suspects, including women and children.

He said “Troops of this operation have sustained aggressive posture with vigour in the North-East which yielded significant result. The series of land and air operations conducted in different operations across the North-East theatre has reduced the operational capabilities of the insurgents. With the period under review, several terrorist elements were neutralized and several others were arrested alongside their informants and logistics supplies. Consequently, more terrorists have continued to lay down their arms and surrender to their own troops with their families as they could no longer withstand the offensive operations within the theatre. During the period, a total of  29 terrorists were neutralized, 13 terrorists including their informants and logistics supplies were arrested in the course of these operations.”