EXCLUSIVE: We'll Kill All Non-State Actors In The Forests, Including ESN Operatives – CDS Irabor Vows

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The Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Maj.-Gen. Lucky Irabor, on Monday, said the Nigerian military has concluded plans, strategies to contain internal security challenges affecting the country, stating that their target is to kill all non-state-actors in communities, forests and countryside across Nigeria.

Gen. Irabor disclosed this during a one-day National Defence and Security Summit in Abuja, on Monday, which was carefully monitored by Journal Reporters. 

The declaration followed the order of President Mohammed Buhari directing the Military to shoot at sight anybody seen with AK-47 riffles inside the forest. 

Journal Reporters had reported exclusively how the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu floated and equipped Eastern Security Network operatives with AK-47 to protect lives and property of people in the Eastern region, Nigeria from foreign Fulani killer herdsmen heavily armed and entering Nigeria. 

The Federal Government and security agencies, however, have regarded and treated ESN Operatives as non-state actors but has yet to define the activities of Fulani herdsmen bearing AK-47 riffles.

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Speaking in the summit, Irabor assured that the military will restore normalcy in all parts of the country.

He noted that the defence is committed to ensuring that parts of the county witnessing kidnapping and other security challenges regain their peace.

CDS Irabor expressed optimism that “Nigeria will have peace again”, adding that Nigerians would no longer entertain fear while going about their businesses.

Maj.-Gen. Lucky who said the military would need support from other security agencies during the operation, urged Nigerians to also assist by providing intelligence when necessary.

“Our strategic objectives are manifold and imbued to neutralise non-state-actors and other agents of violence in our communities, forests and countryside to stabilise the security situation across the nation, to facilitate law and order; and lastly to provide the enabling environment far peace and development.

“These presuppose that the military would need support from other security agencies during the operations and would be required to give support to others at different stages of the internal security effort.

“On behalf of the officers and men/women of the armed forces, I pledge our unalloyed loyalty to C-in-C and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The mandate shall be delivered; fear and despair shall be extinguished from our land. Nigeria will have peace again,” the CDS said.

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