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Ortom allays fear as military begin air surveillance in Benue Ortom allays fear as military begin air surveillance in Benue Share As military aircraft on air surveillance around Makurdi, Benue State capital and neighbouring communities heightened tension on Sunday, the State Governor, Samuel Ortom has allayed their fears. Governor Ortom said that the aerial surveillance was been carried out by the military in parts of the state capital to flush out criminals and bandits. Ortom spoke at Petros Assembly International during a Thanksgiving service and child dedication by the state commissioner for youth and sports, Pastor Ojotu Ojema, confirmed the air raid in the state capital but said that the surveillance was targeted at flushing out criminal elements and bandits from their hideouts. ....
Troops commence 7-day special operation to clear forests, communities in Benue, Nasarawa, Taraba The joint military operation covering Benue, Nasarawa and Taraba states, codenamed Operation Whirl Stroke, OPWS, has commenced a 7-day operation in the three states to clear bandits and armed herders in forests and communities located in the states. Though no formal statement has been issued to that effect by the Commander of the OPWS, Brig. Gen. Clement Apere, a military source told reporters yesterday in Makurdi that the operation became necessary to check the incessant attacks on communities in Benue state particularly by armed herdsmen. He explained that the operation would also be covering islands behind the Nigeria Army School of Military Engineering, NASME, barracks in Makurdi and Gbajimba in Guma Local Government Area of Benue state which were identified as locations usually used as hideouts by armed herders from Nasarawa state before they launch attacks on unsuspec ....
A respondent, who declined to disclose his name, said he saw two military helicopters which hovered severally around his vicinity in the Achussa suburb of Makurdi metropolis. “The aircraft flew so low in our surrounding and then always headed towards Wadata, NASME, Modern market and Iniongun area. “We have heard some sounds as heavy as that of an explosion of weapons,” he said. Another resident, who also preferred anonymity, said there were deafening sounds when the aircrafts hovered around rural communities in Ukum area, suggesting that the soldiers may have carried out operations in some criminals hideouts in the local government. ....