Military sustains bombardment of Lagos, Ogun creeks

The military is relentless in its continued bombardment of the hideouts of the militants who have in recent times been terrorising Lagos and Ogun creeks.

The operation which started like a one-off operation on Thursday has been persistent over four days now.

The bodies involved in the ongoing operation include the Nigerian Navy, the Nigerian Air Force, the Nigerian Army, the Department of State Services, DSS, the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps and the Nigeria Police Force.

Deploying aerial and land arsenals, the military has dealt severe blows on the criminals that have long engaged in vices like pipeline vandalism, robbery, murder, rape and kidnapping.

More shelling and airstrikes were On Sunday, rained on Ishawo, Igando, Igbolomu areas of Ikorodu in Lagos State, and Arepo, Awawa, Elepete and Ibafo in Ogun State.

The latest operation, which saw the use of three fighter jets, among others, led to the rescue of abducted persons kept at the creeks.

The operatives of the DSS were also able to track the petrol stations that were being supplied with the stolen products, with some of them reportedly on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.

Brigadier General Rabe Abubakar, the spokesman of the Defence Headquarters, has also assured that no innocent resident has been hit by the air raid.

Abubakar said: “There is no way innocent persons would be hit because what we are doing is ‘precision attack on registered target or identified location’.

“No innocent Nigerian was hit. The attack is on the criminals who hide in the creeks.

“We are still carrying out the raid. We are not carrying out military attack on Ijaw.

“We are carrying out the operation against criminals. We don’t tag them.

“Militants are militants. We don’t want to know if they are Hausa, Igbo or Yoruba.

“Our war is against pipeline vandals and oil thieves,” he said.

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