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By Kingsley Omonobi
The Defence Headquarters said connected Friday that since President Bola Tinubu assumed bureau successful May 2023, the subject moving nether his renewed strategical absorption has achieved important milestones successful degrading violent networks, disrupting transgression syndicates, and restoring civilian authorization crossed galore volatile regions.
Consequently, DHQ said that wrong this play implicit 5,000 insurgents and bandits person been neutralized crossed aggregate theatres of operation, including the Northeast, Northwest, and North Central and implicit 350 communities and villages antecedently nether the power of terrorists and bandits, peculiarly successful Borno, Niger, Zamfara, and Katsina States recovered
DHQ besides debunked allegations that 2,630 persons were killed successful Plateau State by terrorists/bandits successful the past 2 years arsenic good arsenic displacement of 167 communities successful Plateau State arsenic concoction of falsehood.
Responding to Amnesty International Recent Report making these allegations, DHQ dismissed it arsenic ‘A bleak and generalized representation of nationalist insecurity, which mostly ignored the asymmetric and evolving quality of modern threats, particularly those rooted successful decades of socio-political and economical complexities”.
Major General Markus Kangye, Director of Defence Media Operations successful this respect said the subject successful concern with section quality networks, successfully rescued implicit 1,200 abducted civilians, including women and children, galore of whom were kidnapped successful wide abduction incidents.
He said the deployment of Quick Response Forces (QRFs), guardant Operating Bases, and enhanced coordination with authorities governments and assemblage leaders person improved civil-military relations with communities adding, “The take-off of Operation Safe Haven, Operation Hadarin Daji, and Operation Whirl Stroke led to important suppression of militia activities and inter-communal violence.
Major Gen Kangye emphasized that successful surveillance and aerial powerfulness enhancement, the NAF has conducted implicit 500 palmy aerial interdictions, adjacent aerial enactment among different cognition portion importantly degrading the question and logistics capableness of equipped groups noting that the usage of modern surveillance drones and nighttime operations has improved tactical superiority and minimized civilian casualties.
He disclosed that subject engineering corps person secured and rehabilitated cardinal proscription and connection corridors antecedently susceptible to attacks resulting successful accrued associated patrols on porous borderline regions with Cameroon, Niger, and Chad which has curtailed cross-border infiltration.
While faulting Amnesty’s study connected the concern successful Plateau State arsenic a deliberate effort to mislead the wide nationalist towards galvanizing antagonistic nationalist sentiment against the military, DHQ said, “The fig of deaths quoted successful the study does not bespeak the existent concern successful Plateau State.
“Following the reorganization of deployments and behaviour of broad-spectrum subsidiary operations successful Plateau State from July 2023, the State witnessed continuous betterment until the coordinated attacks successful immoderate communities successful Bokkos and Bassa LGAs of Plateau State connected 2 and 14 April 2025.
“The play covered successful the property merchandise did not grounds coordinated attacks connected communities but for the Christmas Eve 2023 and the caller information breaches successful Bokkos and Bassa LGAs of Plateau State.
“Therefore, the allegation of sidesplitting of 2,630 persons successful Plateau State successful the past 2 years is simply a concoction of falsehood successful pursuant of self-serving agenda.
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