Nigerian troops between February 27 and March 6, 2025, killed 92 terrorists.
Director of Defence Media Operations, Major General Markus Kangye, stated this during a news briefing on the operations of the military and other security organs in Abuja on Thursday.
General Kangye claimed that the troops arrested 18 oil thieves and freed 75 kidnapped hostages.
They comprise oil thieves’ abettors, gunrunners, and other extremist violent groups, and also carried out many close air support, armed reconnaissance patrols, and air interdictions.
Operation Safe Corridor has been set up by the Defence Headquarters in Nigeria’s north-western axis, with headquarters in Tsafe, Zamfara State.
The initiative aims to reduce insecurity by establishing a formal process of rehabilitating and reintegrating repentant terrorists who surrender their arms voluntarily.
During the symbolic takeover of office buildings to be utilized as operating headquarters, Governor Dauda Lawal reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to assisting security agencies in the war against crime.
The launch of Operation Safe Corridor in North West is poised to supplement the ongoing military operation aimed at reclaiming peace and security in the region.
While the programme will have its head office in Zamfara State, the partners in security expect that it will assist in suppressing violence and integrating willing ex-combatants from criminality.
Operation Safe Corridor is a targeted military operation with the objective of enabling former militants and bandits to re-enter society.
The operation is designed on five fundamental pillars: disarmament, demobilization, de-radicalization, rehabilitation, and reintegration.
The programme has been rolled out in the North-East to Boko Haram defectors successfully and is now being expanded to the North-West to meet the prevailing security needs in Zamfara, Kebbi, Katsina, Sokoto, and Kaduna states.
