Nigeria’s Brigade of Guards has seriously beefed up security in Abuja and its environs following a security alert that Terrorists are planning to attack schools and churches in the capital city.
POLITICS NIGERIA learned that new security measures became necessary after an alert was issued by the FCT command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) last week that the insurgents were planning to attack schools, churches and public infrastructure in the territory.
The situation had immediately forced schools and churches to review their security arrangements.
Troops have been deployed to all the entry and exit points in Abuja and soldiers have intensified stop and search operations with increased checkpoints in view of the development. This is why traffic gridlocks have been noticed inNyanya-Karu Road, Lugbe-Abuja City Gate axis and Gwagwalada-Zuba area.
This development is coming barely two weeks after dare-devil terrorists attacked Kuje Maximum Prisons freeing over 455 hardened criminals.
Furthermore, the new security measures came as the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) said naval troops on anti-bunkering operations in the Niger Delta region destroyed 109 illegal refining sites and arrested 24 oil bunkerers in the last two weeks.
Speaking at a media briefing in Abuja, the Director, Defence Media Operations (DDMO), Maj Gen Bernard Onyeuko, said soldiers recovered over N2.7 billion stolen crude comprising over four million litres of crude oil, two million litres of Automotive Gas Oil (AGO)and 30,000 litres of DPK.
He said troops of Operation Delta Safe, also discovered and destroyed 34 wooden boats, 150 storage tanks, 119 ovens, 104 dugout pits, 27 pumping machines, one weapon, one speed boat, 13 vehicles and seven outboard engines.
Onyeuko said the soldiers achieved the feat while on operation Octopus Grip conducted in creeks, towns and communities in Delta, Bayelsa and Rivers States.
The DMO spokesman, while giving an update on military operations conducted between June 30 to July 14, also said 3,858 Boko Haram fighters and their families surrendered to troops fighting the counter-insurgency war.
Those who surrendered included 505 males, 1,042 females and 2,311 children, as well as six commanders of the terrorists, amongst them, Mallam Mala Hassan, Ali Madagali, Musa Bashir, Buba Dahiru, Jafar Hamma and Abbali Nakib Polisawa.
Within the period under review, Onyeuko said soldiers killed several terrorists and arrested some logistics suppliers/collaborators with various items at various logistics towns within the theatre.
