Don’t condon criminality, COAS tells Imo residents

By Emmanuel Iheaka

Owerri — The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Olufemi Oluyede, has urged residents of Imo State not to condone acts of criminality, informing that tolerating specified behaviour endangers communities and undermines nationalist security.

Oluyede made the telephone during a stakeholders’ engagement forum themed “Taking the Nigerian Army to the Communities,” held connected Thursday successful Owerri, the Imo State capital.

Represented by the Special Guest of Honour, Maj.-Gen. Obinna Ajunwa, the COAS emphasized the request for corporate work successful safeguarding Imo State and the state astatine large.

He cautioned that communities that crook a unsighted oculus to transgression activities yet endure the consequences.

“What you condone is what you tolerate; what you tolerate is what volition destruct you,” helium stated.

Oluyede reaffirmed the Army’s committedness to engaging and listening to communities arsenic portion of its broader strategy to heighten nationalist security.

In his invited address, the Chief of Civil–Military Affairs, Maj.-Gen. Gold Chibuisi, described the forum arsenic 1 of the Army’s non-kinetic approaches to tackling insecurity crossed the country.

He explained that the engagement was aimed astatine gathering ideas and feedback that would amended the Army’s operations and fortify civil–military relations.

Also speaking, the Chairman of the Council of Traditional Rulers and Community Policing successful Imo State, Eze Emmanuel Okeke, lauded the initiative, noting that it came astatine a important clip erstwhile the authorities is recovering from a question of insecurity.

Eze Okeke pledged the continued collaboration of accepted rulers and assemblage leaders with information agencies successful the combat against transgression and the restoration of bid successful the state.

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