The Nigerian Army says it is gaining ground in the Niger Delta as it uncovers that the Joint Task Force has murdered five aggressors in Rivers State.

This is coming scarcely 24 hours after the military declared that it has started cleaning up of arms in the Nigeria's Niger Delta area.

The aggressors were slaughtered amid a trade of firearm flame with the troops, and a reserve of arms and ammo recuperated from them.

The troops blocked the criminals after they had hijacked a unidentified individual before the weapon fight resulted.

An announcement by the Army representative, Colonel Sani Usman, expressed that the activity would proceed with this weekend in the 82 Division and part of the Two Division of the Nigerian Army.

The armed force clarified that the operations in the riverine environment was to check criminal exercises, for example, capturing, militancy and robbery among others.

The Commander of "Operation Delta Safe", Major General Joseph Irabor, had told writers in Yenogoa, Bayelsa State that the military would not yield in its determination to free the Niger Delta of illicit arms.

This most recent executing of five activists and one criminal happened in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital this weekend and is viewed as a noteworthy achievement by the Nigerian military.

Nonetheless, there are reports that the Federal Government is prepared to exchange with the Niger Delta activists, to determine the emergency in the district.

The Petroleum Minister, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, said at the weekend that over $40 billion have been spent in the Niger Delta in the previous 12 years with no noteworthy results.