Chief of Army Staff Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai has warned that the
Army will use force if the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) and other
militant groups reject dialogue with the Federal Government.
Gen. Buratai, who was represented by the General Officer
Commanding (GOC) 82 Division, Enugu, Maj.-Gen. Ibrahim
Attahiru, spoke yesterday after inaugurating the two-storey
administrative headquarters complex, Olympic-size swimming
pool and two other projects at the 2 Brigade of the Army. He also
inaugurated four projects at the Military Hospital on Aba Road,
Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
He said, “Government is still committed to dialogue (with Niger
Delta militants). Whereby this cannot go on, then there could be
resort to other means. The non-kinetic means has always been the
source first, before government can recourse to the kinetic means
(dropping bombs and using bullets, using lethal force/full military
action/war or killing people).
“So, there is the need for the Niger Delta Avengers to see reason
and dialogue with government.
“Each time the army goes out to work, it works in support of the
civil authority and we will continue to do that. If there is a need
for the military authority to support the civil authority (during
Rivers July 30 rerun), based on need from the police, we will
continue to do just that”.
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