Operation In S’East, S’South, Waste Of Tax Payers’ Money -IPOB

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), yesterday, alleged that the launching of Operation Python Dance and Operation Crocodile Smile military exercise in the South-East and South-South is waste of the taxpayer’s money, which should have been channelled to more meaningful ventures for the people.
IPOB also alleged that the “Nigerian Army wants to use Operation Python Dance 4 in the South-East and Operation Crocodile Smile 4 in the South-South, respectively, to give the world misleading impression that insecurity was affecting every part of Nigeria when that is not the case.
In a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, IPOB warned that it would no longer tolerate the alleged incessant killing of innocent civilians in the South-East by the soldiers involved in Operation Python Dance, military exercise, in the name of fighting crime, which it said does not exist in the South-East states.
The group told the Federal Government and the Nigerian Army that killing of innocent civilians in the South-East would not make up for the alleged military failure to deal with insurgency and terrorism ravaging the Northern part of Nigeria, and therefore, asked them to direct the activities of Operation Python Dance and Operation Crocodile Smile, to fighting the killer herdsmen suspected to be mostly Fulani.
“Operation Python Dance in the South-East is a waste of resources by the Federal Government and Nigerian Army because peaceful atmospheres exist in the South-East states, the Nigerian Army launching of Operation Python Dance in the South-East is to give the world the misleading impression that insecurity is affecting every part of Nigeria and Biafraland when that is not the case.
“We, therefore, advice the Lt-GenTukur Buratai, that constant harassment and killing of innocent civilians in the South-East will not make up for the military failure to deal with insurgency and terrorism ravaging Northern Nigeria, the Nigerian Army decided to designed Operation Python Dance and Crocodile Smile in the South-East and South-South, respectively, to torment civil society.
“We see the operations by the Nigerian Army as tactical diversion to cover up the failures of the Nigeria Army in tackling Fulani terrorism, to us the Operation Python Dance in the South-East is to aid Fulani terror herdsmen to acquire and consolidate on farmlands forcibly taken from communities in the South-East, particularly in Ebonyi State.”