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Military onslaught against bandits and insurgents in the country may have yielded breakthrough as troops of Operation AWATSE has arrested a suspected member of Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) around Sango-Ota area of Ogun State.
Briefing newsmen on Defence Military Operations (DMO) across the country, Acting Director of DMO, Brig.-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko, said that operational activities within the past weeks involved sustained routine patrols to forestall activities of vandals on Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pipelines at Gaun, Akute, Wawa 1 and 2 and Mabgero areas. x
According to Onyeuko: “Troops carried out standing patrols and raid operations at strategic areas in the South-West zone, including Majidun area, during which one Mr. Ibrahim Musa, an ISWAP member was arrested at No. 31 Abartura Street in Sango-Ota, Ogun State.
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