A Combat Team from Operation Safe Haven (OPSH) has neutralised some bandits terrorising the Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State and recovered arms and ammunition from them.
In a statement signed by its Media Officer, Captain Oya James, the OPSH said while responding to a distress call in Mangu in the troubled Local Government Area on Wednesday, the team of men of Operations Safe Haven were ambushed along Road Mangun-PPushit-MMangu road by a group of bandits believed to be amongst the miscreants fermenting trouble in Mangu LGA.
According to the statement, the troops
professionally and decisively cleared the ambush, neutralising three of the bandits in the process, and recovered three AK 47 rifles, 14 7.62 Special rounds, one motorcycle, and a Constabulary Police ID card while others escaped with gunshot wounds.
The Commander Operations SAFE HAVEN and General Officer Commanding 3 Armoured Division, Major General AE Abubakar, reiterated that the Nigerian Army remains resolute in the discharge of its mandate within the ambits of the law and will continue to be firm, bold, decisive, and just.
He said that the protection of lives and property of citizens remains paramount and that with the redeployment of his Headquarters to Mangu LGA, all distress calls would be responded to promptly as several Combat Teams have been dispatched to remote areas in the Local Government for enhanced rapid response.
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