The Nigeria Army plans to conduct military exercises in
Southern Kaduna, Plateau and Kano States – tagged Operation Kunama (Scorpion)
– as part of measures to contain the onslaught of Fulani marauders against
farmers in the region.
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, disclosed
this yesterday to State House correspondents after President Muhammadu Buhari
convened the first national security meeting of 2017.
It was attended by the Chief of Defence Staff and service
chiefs of the Army, Air Force and Navy; the Inspector-General of Police;
Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS); the Minister of
Defence, and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA).
Buratai disclosed that the Army’s ‘Operation Python Dance’
in the South East zone, which has been criticised by many in the region, would
be renamed.
The southern part of Kaduna State has been enmeshed in
murderous carnage in recent weeks, with the herdsmen leaving behind scores of
dead villagers and residences destroyed.
The consequent uproar made the President to order a military
intervention and deployment of two Army battalions to help restore normalcy
there.
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