Troops Neutralise Suspected Kidnapper, Arrest 1 Other In Delta

Troops of the 63 Brigade, Nigerian Army/Sector 1, Joint Task Force, South South codenamed Operation Delta Safe, person neutralised a person of a cultist radical successful Delta State.

Another member, identified arsenic Stephen Fragene Pessu, was besides arrested astatine the Pessu assemblage successful Warri South section authorities country of the state.

A connection signed by the Acting Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, 63 Brigade, Nigerian Army, Captain Iliyasu Bawa-Rijau, revealed that the radical was equipped with lethal weapons, utilized during caller clashes.

Bawa-Rijau said the arrested notorious fishy confessed to beryllium a subordinate of a dreaded pack terrorising the country and its environs and person provided credible accusation connected their activities.

The connection added that the pack was implicated successful respective kidnapping for ransom cases, with grounds of payments made to unafraid the merchandise of their victims.

Captain Bawa-Rijau disclosed that “further probe revealed that the radical is equipped with lethal weapons, utilized during caller clashes.”

He further stated, “The troops conducted a follow-up operation, which resulted successful a firefight, during which the neutralised suspect, simply identified arsenic Mr Dele, was changeable dead, and a pump-action weapon was recovered from the scene.”

The Army spokesperson said that the cognition was ongoing, with troops combing the wide area, to apprehension different members of the gang.

Additionally, helium stressed that efforts were being intensified to retrieve the weapons successful their possession.

Meanwhile, the Commander, 63 Brigade/Sector 1, JTF SS OPDS, Brigadier MA Shonibare, portion commending the troops for their resilience, has charged them to further clamp down connected each transgression elements successful the area.

Shonibare besides reassured the radical of Delta State and environs that the Brigade would proceed to efficaciously prioritise the information of lives and property.

He called connected the citizenry to spell astir their societal and economical activities, assuring that capable measures person been enactment successful spot for their information and security.