COAS vows to track, hunt down those behind Benue, Plateau attacks, killings

The Chief of Navy Staff (COAS), Lieutenant Traditional Olufemi Oluyede, has assured Nigerians that the perpetrators of the killings and assaults in Benue and Plateau, apart from other parts of the country, in particular within the north central situation, will be hunted down.

While disclosing that the military has obtained decided directives from President Bola Tinubu to act decisively, Oluyede emphasised that the military is fully dedicated to inserting a complete reside to the spate of assaults.

Per Oluyede, whereas declaring starting up a media chat organised by the Militia-Civil Affairs of the Nigerian Navy in Akure, Ondo Voice capital, no one will be allowed to tamper with Nigeria’s territorial integrity.

With the theme of the media chat tagged ‘Militia-Media Collaboration: Panacea for Enhanced Nationwide Safety and Pattern’, the COAS, who was represented by Traditional Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 2 Division Nigerian Navy, Predominant Traditional Obinna Onubogu, wired that a pair of of the perpetrators of the assaults may possibly well no longer be Nigerians.

He said: “The Nigerian Navy has remained engaged in Plateau, in Benue, in Kwara — in quite a bit of states that are experiencing insecurity.“ We can rush after them, and by God’s grace, we are going to have the option to get them.

“In Benue in particular, you may possibly look, within the arriving weeks, very account for security preparations to be particular that that that each one that is occurring there fully stops.”

“We're acutely conscious that these forms of participants can even very smartly be foreign parts. The behaviour we're seeing is fully obnoxious, the ability they rush about their work. It does no longer converse any roughly national identification or cost system.”

Oluyede, who appealed to communities and native stakeholders to present a get to military operations by sharing timely, wanted and actionable intelligence, entreated the media to ascertain information sooner than publication and serve in constructing national team spirit.

“The president has given very decided orders for us to transfer accessible. And so we're out — fully deployed — and tackling the risk head-on. The Navy can no longer be all over staunch away. Nigeria is an countless country, and we're no longer as tremendous in amount as many participants imagine. We rely heavily on the give a get to and cooperation of the local population to supply timely and credible files.

“In some cases, unfortunately, the participants are no longer very priceless by diagram of the knowledge they give out, which delays our reaction time. That must change if we're to decide this fight together.

“The social media situation, especially, is flooded with misinformation, disinformation, and outright lies. That's segment of why we're right here — to account for components and enchantment to the press to attain out to us sooner than inserting out unverified tales.

“We're happy with the give a get to we’ve obtained from the media to date, and we hope to deepen that synergy to be particular that that national security is no longer undermined by sensational reporting.”