The Joint Military Task Foce deployed to the Niger Delta on Monday said its troops lost a solder and killed a suspected militant leader when the bandits launched an attack on troops in Ondo state.
The IYC president, Eric Omare said that suspects who have had no case of illegality established against them must be released as that will prove to the public that the military was not out to molest and humiliate law abiding citizens.
Apochi Suleiman, a Naval Rear Admiral and the new Commander deployed to take charge of the military operation in the Niger Delta codenamed “Operation Delta Safe” has said that he would introduce new strategies in order to better protect Nigeria’s oil facilities from militants.
The Defence Headquarters has appointed a new commander for the ongoing operation aimed at ridding the Niger Delta region of criminal elements, codenamed ‘Operation Delta Safe’
One of the militant groups that have terrorized the Niger Delta region in recent times, Bakassi Strike Force, BSF, has surrendered some of its arms to the Nigerian Military authorities as a sign of its willingness to surrender and quit militancy if the federal government addressed their concerns.
