{"id":32366,"date":"2024-05-16T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/military-declares-notorious-bandit-halilu-buzu-wanted-for-terrorism-arms-supplies\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T12:00:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T12:00:07","slug":"military-declares-notorious-bandit-halilu-buzu-wanted-for-terrorism-arms-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/military-declares-notorious-bandit-halilu-buzu-wanted-for-terrorism-arms-supplies\/","title":{"rendered":"Military declares notorious bandit, Halilu Buzu wanted for terrorism, arms supplies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The military has declared a notorious bandit and kidnap kingpin, Halilu Buzu wanted for terrorism, illegal arms supplies, illegal mining, and cattle rustling.<\/p>\n<p>The Director of Defence Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba, disclosed this during the bi-weekly media briefing on Thursday, May 16.<\/p>\n<p>Buba said Buzu, who is an indigene of Niger State, resides in a forest in Zamfara State and often escapes to the Niger Republic after striking in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, said the military is working with its counterparts from the Niger Republic, to ensure the arrest of the terrorist, who has a lot of boys working for him.<\/p>\n<p>Buba also disclosed that troops of the Nigerian Army succeeded in rescuing a total of 253 kidnapped victims in the last two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the feat was achieved by the Troops of Operations Y-Watch, the Troops of Nokia-Fighting Patrols, and the Troops of Operations Delta State.<\/p>\n<p>While also announcing the killing of some insurgents, he said the fight against terrorism is one that \u201cmust be won.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking further, Buba also said that the troops neutralised 227 and arrested 529 terrorists. Eleven perpetrators of oil theft were also arrested in the weeks under review.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe relentlessly target these categories of terrorists such that we will be able to take them out and take them off the field as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSoon, the fate of such terrorists will be decided. It will be violent, and it will be short and will stop at nothing to take them off the battlefield,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Military declares notorious bandit, Halilu Buzu wanted for terrorism, arms supplies<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The military has declared a notorious bandit and kidnap kingpin, Halilu Buzu wanted for terrorism, illegal arms supplies, illegal mining,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7907,15361,15],"tags":[7908,15362,5809,180],"class_list":["post-32366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bandit","category-halilu-buzu","category-news","tag-bandit","tag-buzu","tag-halilu","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}