More than 150 militant killed in Ogun and Lagos riverine area by air force bombardment.

Around 147 suspected militant may have been slaughtered in the continuous joint military operation in riverine groups influenced by late spate of criminal assaults in Lagos and Ogun States.

The influenced groups had gone under the attack of criminals suspected to be Ijaw aggressors with around 50 inhabitants apparently murdered in the previous weeks while few others were seized.


The improvement has prompted the departure of a portion of the influenced groups by occupants the same number of them kept on leaving by the thousand until last Thursday when the military initiated an assault on the camps of suspected aggressors. Talking with Sunday Sun journalist, a neighborhood security source told our reporter on telephone that loss recorded with respect to the militant as at yesterday evening won't not be under 150.

''The setback as at yesterday as we were enlightened was regarding 114 however at the beginning of today we heard that a greater amount of them have been killed and that the figure might be up to 150,'' the source said. Inquired as to whether there was any episode involv­ing regular citizen loss, the source said: "I can't say any­thing on that however all I know is that individuals have kept on abandoning some of these ranges maybe out of trepidation.'' Lagos State police Public Relations Officer, Dolapo Badmos, a Superintendent of Police, then again rejected the apprehension of plausibility of non military personnel loss. "It is a wrong impression to discuss regular citizen loss in light of the fact that the operation is occurring somewhere down in the streams. It is not in the groups,'' she said. In the interim, the Nigerian military has depicted as shoddy promulgation, insinua­tions that its airborne assault at the Arepo territory of Ogun State was on focuses on that were not pipeline vandals and activists. The Flag Officer Commanding Western Naval Command, Rear Admiral Ferguson Bobai who is the organizer of the activity said the objectives that were crushed by the military were precisely surveyed utilizing elevated reconnaissance innovation mounted on the Nigerian Air Force air ship required in the operations.

He addressed Sunday Sun on telephone clarifying that, "at first we were coordinated not to utilize air power, but rather when we completed evaluation of the range a considerable measure of the vandal had moved from territories open by water to extremely dif­ficult landscape. Tailing this advancement we came back to the Chief of Defense Staff, requesting that airpower is the main route for the vandals to be removed. Furthermore, in utilizing airpower simply like I let you know amid the preparation we surveyed the territory and ensured that the objectives are exceptionally ones that we expected to take out. "We have video re­cording from the reconnaissance air ship and we likewise have still photographs which were investigated legitimately and painstakingly before we initiated the operation. I should let you know this is only promulgation to throw together notions."

Chief naval officer Bobai said the vandals are monetary sabo­teurs and that the airborne assault would proceed until the vandals are repressed.

"Tonight we will convey our reconnaissance flying machine to take shots of ranges besieged and we will then dissect the photographs and if there are still targets we have to take out, we will proceed with the shelling until the objectives are totally taken out," he noted.

He said that the assault was a mandate of the Defense Headquarters and the need to shell the territory came taking after rates of pipeline vandalisation, seizing and equipped theft.

Simply a month ago, the military and part of the operation code-named Operation Awatse got mandate from the Chief of Defense Staff, General Gabriel Olo­nisakin to do an operation in the general territory of Arepo with a perspective to destroying vandals camps and shanties scattered around Arepo, Ibafo, Ishawo and every one of the regions around that pivot.