Insecurity: BRAVEIT Hails Nigerian Army’s Combat Strides, Cautions Detractors
A pressure group, Building Resilience Against Violent Extremism Insurgency And Terrorism (BRAVEIT), has cautioned politicians and persons it describes as detractors of the Nigerian Army from politicizing security issues as army troops continue to prosecute military operations in the country.
BRAVEIT made this known in a statement on Tuesday.
The group’s National Coordinator, Dr. Muhammad Sani Abubakar, called on Nigerians to continue lending their support to the army’s and combat operations military troops are prosecuting.
As a pressure group, he said, BRAVEIT, is proud of the efforts of the country’s security agencies in tackling insecurity, across the land.
Abubakar, in the statement titled, “Nigerian Military’s Strides Against Terrorists, Other Criminal Elements: Indeed, an End to Insecurity is Nigh,” said army troops indeed deserve plaudits for the ‘brutal war’ they have continued to wage against ISWAP and Boko Haram fighters.
He said under the present Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Gen. Faruq Yahaya, no fewer than 36,000 ISWAP-Boko Haram insurgents and their families, between last July and March this year, renounced terrorism.
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He added: “Ordinarily, it is not part of their statutory and constitutional mandates, however, the Nigerian Army, first under the leadership of Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai, Nigeria’s Ambassador to the Republic of Benin; and now, under the stewardship of Lt. Gen. Faruq Yahaya, has greatly helped other sister security agencies stem the tide of internal unrests.
“It is an open secret that not only the fighters, but top Commanders/Leaders of both ISWAP and Boko Haram, such as Sani Shuwaram and Al-Barnawi, were recently eliminated in ‘deadly’ military operations conducted by troops in the North East.
“In the North Central and North West, the ranks of bandit groups in Sokoto, Zamfara, Niger, Katsina, Kebbi, and Kaduna States, have enormously been depleted. Not only members of bandit gangs, but wanted bandit leaders have met their waterloo during combat operations of Troops of Operation Hadin Kai.
“In the last three months, troops of the Joint Task Force, Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) neutralised 126 Boko Haram and Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists in the North-East.
“And then, in just less than a year after Gen. Yahaya’s appointment as COAS, Nigeria has been ranked sixth in the 2022 global terrorism index (GTI), an improvement from the fourth position it was since 2017.”
