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Troops of the Nigerian Navy have arrested three suspected kidnappers in Kujama, Chikun Local Government Areas of Kaduna State on Friday.
It was gathered that the bandits, in a black Toyota Corolla, drove up to the shop of a POS agent in the area and attempted to kidnap the operator and a customer who was there for a transaction.
The state Commissioner, Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, in a statement, said that an alarm was raised and the Nigerian Navy troops from the Kujama checkpoint arrived at the scene to apprehend the suspects before they could escape with their captives.
The Delta State Commissioner of Police, Ari Muhammed Ali, has commended the people of Warri for not setting the Warri Area Command of the Nigeria Police
HURIWA said Buratai was proactive in the war against Boko Haram terrorism in the North.
National Coordinator of HURIWA, Emmanuel Onwubiko, however, decried the activities of moles in the Army to sabotage Buratai’s effort in fighting terrorism.
A statement by Onwubiko reads partly: “There is no gainsaying the fact that the transformation of the Nigerian Army rapidly manifested under the leadership of the Chief of Army Staff; Lt. Gen Tukur Yusuf Buratai (Rtd), who was proactive in the war against terrorism despite efforts by moles and saboteurs embedded within the Army who were derailing the objectives of the counter Terror War and the efforts for the respect for fundamental human rights.
The clamour to replace the former chiefs was not because people were tired of seeing their faces. Their overstay had caused problems within the military services because sets of officers junior to them had had to retire without having a chance to reach the peak of their careers. For the wider public though, the main concern was that the war against insurgency and banditry has dragged on for too long, with no end in sight, and there were fears that the old service chiefs had run out of fresh ideas.
Maybe they had, but history must be kind to the former service chiefs. Buratai, for example, unfolded one new strategy after another and on many occasions he personally led troops into battle. The Air Force, on its part, moved under Sadique from a marginal contributor in the fight against Boko Haram to a central factor in recent times. Its daily bombing and strafing campaign against the insurgents has warmed the hearts of Nigerians and has severely degraded the insurgents’ capacity to wa
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In 2016, Ibrahim Uba Yusuf, an indigene of Borno was so impressed with new Chief of Defence Staff Lucky Irabor that he declared him his man of the year in a local publication in Maiduguri.
Before then, the entire Sambisa Forest had fallen to Gboko Haram but Irabor led the operations that recovered greater part of the forest. Yusuf celebrated Irabor this way: “The year 2016 is remarkable to not only the people of Borno or North East but also the whole of Nigeria because of the fall of camp and hideout of the Boko Haram leader Shekau in Sambisa.