{"id":351201,"date":"2021-05-12T21:54:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T20:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=351201"},"modified":"2021-05-12T21:56:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T20:56:36","slug":"more-military-action-coming-to-south-east-nigeria-others-says-chief-of-defence-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=351201","title":{"rendered":"More Military Action Coming To South-East Nigeria, Others, Says Chief of Defence Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Chief of the Defence Staff, Gen Lucky Irabor, has said that the military will carry out President Muhammadu Buhari&#8217;s directive to the letter as the South-East, North-East and North-West regions will witness more military actions.<br \/>\n<span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><\/span><\/span><br \/>\nIrabor added that there was now a &#8220;little calm&#8221; in the North-West and North-Central going by the decimation of a number of the bandits and their leaders in the past weeks by the Military.<br \/>\n<span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2021\/05\/More-Military-Action-Coming-To-South-East-Nigeria-Others-Says-Chief.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\nThe CDS stated this in an interview with State House reporters while briefing them on the outcome of the security meeting with Buhari on Tuesday.<br \/>\nHe said, &#8220;Based on the President&#8217;s directive, yes of course, we are. And I like to reiterate that, for those who have been following the developments in the North-West; for example, the various operations where bandits were neutralised and some of their leaders were also taken.<br \/>\n&#8220;We equally saw last week the rescue operation that was undertaken. These are intelligence-led operations and they are all geared towards observing the directives of Mr President. And that&#8217;s the reason why you have observed a little calm in the North-West and in the North-Central. Quite a lot has also happened.<br \/>\n&#8220;In the South-East, you&#8217;ve also been following the reports of the actions we have to undertake in that regard. We are on top of the situation regarding his (President&#8217;s) directive and you will see more action.&#8221;<br \/>\nBuhari on Tuesday approved new security measures for the South-East and South-South regions of the country.<br \/>\nThe acting Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, disclosed this to State House Correspondents after the security meeting.<br \/>\nHe, however, declined to give details.<br \/>\nThe President had also approved a memo presented by the National Security Adviser (NSA), Major General Babagana Monguno (rtd), on the control of drugs, which he said are enablers of Insecurity, but did not also elaborate.<br \/>\nThe NSA said the meeting stressed the need to address the security challenges in the country particularly those that had arisen in the last few months.<\/div>\n<p>(SaharaReporters)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chief of the Defence Staff, Gen Lucky Irabor, has said that the military will carry out President Muhammadu Buhari&#8217;s directive to the letter as the South-East, North-East and North-West regions will witness more military actions. Irabor added that there was now a &#8220;little calm&#8221; in the North-West and North-Central going by the decimation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":351202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2611,41,16277],"class_list":["post-351201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bandits","tag-buhari","tag-gen-irabor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/351202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}