The
Nigerian Army on Wednesday identified the Badoo group and other cults as one of
the security challenges that Operation Crocodile Smile II would take care of in
the South-West.
The
Director, Army Public Relations, Brig. Gen. Sani Usman, who stated this in an
interview with one of our correspondents, insisted that the military operations
– Egwu Eke II and Crocodile Smile II – like the earlier operations, were not
targeted at “any particular ethnic group or group of individuals.”
Usman
said, “Let me tell you. I made reference to Operation Crocodile Smile, because
there is so much mischief and misinformation in respect of Exercise Egwu Eke
II. What we are saying is that the exercise is not targeted at any particular
ethnic group or a group of persons.
“The
army needs to train because in the event of being called upon by the civic
authorities, we will know what to do. So, we are looking at large-scale
security challenges and we train on those aspects. Last year, we had all these
exercises based on the challenges at that time.
“But
this year, there are issues associated with criminalities such as Badoo and
other cult-related activities. The problems associated with the North-West are
different from the South-South or the South-East or a combination of both. The
whole idea is that these exercises are routine and some people only blow things
out of proportion. But we mean well and we just want to train our troops to be
more professional.”
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