Earlier on Tuesday, President Muhammadu Buhari held a meeting with the service chiefs and the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) at the Presidential Villa in Abuja over the security challenges bewildering the country.
EKO HOT BLOG had reported that Buhari directed the service chiefs to adopt certain security measures in the South-East and the South-South geopolitical zones.
Speaking to newsmen at the Presidential Villa after the meeting on Tuesday, the acting IGP, Usman Baba, said the measures would soon be implemented.
According to the IGP, the development was one of the outcomes of the series of security meetings held in the last eleven days and concluded on Tuesday.
Baba had declined to give details of the new measures approved by the President.
However, Military sources familiar with the development have revealed some of the measures which Buhari approved for the South-East and the South-South geopolitical zones.
The Military sources disclosed that what the President ordered the service chiefs and IGP to do were no “extraordinary measures” but regular operational procedures to check the growing violence in the zones.
The source said, “The police and military have been recording casualties in the South-East during raids and gun battles with the criminals disturbing the region. Therefore, the focus would shift more to airpower in the coming weeks.
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“Combat helicopters and other aircraft would be deployed to conduct massive raids on the hideouts from the air. It does not matter whether the hideouts are for the Indigenous People of Biafra or its armed outfit, what the military is looking for are criminals.
“There is also the likelihood of arrest of more traditional rulers, community heads and chiefs by the security agencies to extract key information. The army and police believe that the traditional and community intelligence will be important to suppress the IPOB (Indigenous People of Biafra) and ESN (Eastern Security Network) uprising.”
According to SaharaReporters, another source revealed that “The South-East states have to warn their traditional rulers against conniving with the agitators. You see how many traditional rulers were arrested, sanctioned, detained and dethroned in the North-West for conniving with bandits. The same table is turning to the South-East and South-South regions.”
It was further gathered that the police and the army operatives were still conducting intelligence operations in the South-East and South-South, and will intensify their reach based on the new President’s directive.
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