Informants worse than insurgents, says DHQ

By Haruna Aliyu, Birnin Kebbi

Nigeria’s Army Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has described informants arsenic large impediments to the military’s efforts to stamp retired insurgency and banditry successful Nigeria, peculiarly successful the northeast and northwest, wherever the service regular battles terrorists.

Director of Information astatine DHQ, Brigadier General Tukur Ismail Gusau, made the connection successful Birnin Kebbi erstwhile helium was hosted by journalists to question media enactment successful the ongoing combat against insurgency and banditry successful the bluish axis of Nigeria.

General Tukur stated that his sojourn to Kebbi to prosecute the media, accepted rulers and members of the nationalist was connected the directive of Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, to guarantee the information concern successful the northwest does not escalate to the benignant successful the northbound eastbound wherever insurgents disguise successful galore forms to unleash mayhem connected hapless citizens.

“We decided to travel present to interface with you journalists to enactment america execute our acceptable goals,” helium said.

Gusau urged the media to people stories that would boost the morale of backstage soldiers astatine the battlefield, not quality that would discourage them from performing their duties.

Tukur hinted that speech from the subject basal established successful Kebbi, plans are underway to make an service brigade to guarantee the information of citizens, saying subject operations successful the affected states are being pushed backmost by the activities of informants who are everyplace and successful each place.

He noted that the service tin lone lend 30 per cent successful the combat against insurgency, portion 70 per cent rests connected the shoulders of citizens whose enactment tin marque oregon mar the occurrence of the fight.

Gusau explained that contempt hiccups successful the combat against insurgency and banditry, nary less than 120 surrendered done harmless corridors, adjacent arsenic helium said the service is ne'er portion of bid deal.

“What we bash is erstwhile they scope truce with the authorities concerned, they surrender to us,” helium said.

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