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DHQ Reorganises Operations, Recommits To Security
The Defence Headquarters says it is reorganising operations across theatres toward tackling security challenges in the country.
The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, disclosed this while giving update on the operations of the Armed Forces across the country yesterday in Abuja.
Enenche said the recent changes in the leadership of the armed forces would usher in new modus operandi for tackling security challenges in the country.
He said the Service Chiefs on assumption of duty, immediately hit the ground running by conducting operational visits to the North East.
“In line with the re-organisation of the Armed Forces of Nigeria with the appointment of new service chiefs, the operations of the armed forces are equally being reorganised to tackle security challenges in the country effectively.
“In this regard, the service chiefs led by the Chief of Defence Staff, Maj.-Gen. Lucky Irabor, commenced actions at all levels.
“These include carrying out strategic, administrative, operational and logistics adjustments, changes and reviews to improve the security situation in the country.
“As such, all stakeholders are requested to give maximum support to the armed forces of Nigeria under the leadership of the Chief of Defence Staff,” he said.
Enenche said that troops of Operation Lafiya Dole had sustained onslaught against Boko Haram/Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists in the North-East.
He said the troops had in various encounters, destroyed more terrorists’ enclaves along with their logistics facilities and eliminated scores of fighters through ground and air strikes.
The coordinator also disclosed that troops had sustained the fight against banditry, kidnapping and other forms of criminality in the North-West and North Central through series of land and air operations.
He said the troops had conducted several clearance and ambush operations as well as aggressive ground and aerial patrols in order to ensure security of lives and property within the period.
He added that troops had continued to protect and safeguard the coastal and territorial waters through intensive sea and creek patrols in South-South and South-West.
According to him, troops conducted anti-crude oil theft and anti-illegal bunkering operations as well as other anti-illegal maritime activities and in the process, deactivated several illegal refining sites within the period in focus.
He said that large quantities of stolen crude oil and illegally refined AGO as well as some equipment were recovered.
“On this note, we urge Nigerians to support our efforts in tackling security challenges confronting our dear nation as our collective efforts are essential in the fight against various security vices in the country.
“The Military High Command reassures the general public of its untiring dedication toward securing the country.
“Members of the public are enjoined to continue providing timely information on activities of criminals in their various localities to military and other security agencies for prompt and effective action,” he said.
Rivers state Deputy Governor Professor Ngozi Nma Odu has commended “The Port Harcourt City One Love,”a Port Harcourt based humanitarian orgnisation For it’s commitment towards alleviating the sufferings of the poor and vulnerable in the society.
Professor Ngozi Nma Odu said this while speaking at this year’s edition of “operation feed the needy” a yearly outreach program of “The Port Harcourt City One Love ” in Port Harcourt.
The Deputy Governor said by feeding more than sixty thousands hungry people within the past six years, the Port Harcourt City One Love Movement has distinguished itself as a club that cares for the less privilege in the society.
She commended the , organization for listing eleven thousand persons to be fed in the current exercise.
Meanwhile The Port Harcourt City One Love has planned a permanent solution to the problem of feeding the poor in the state.
The leader of the group Mr Idaere Gogo Ogan who said this in an interview with newsmen during the distribution of food items to the poor and vulnerables in Port Harcourt said the organization is planning a permanent food kitchen where poor and vulnerable persons can work in anytime and get fed.
Idaere Gogo Ogan said more than sixty thousands poor and vulnerable persons across Port Harcourt City and environs have been fed since the inception of “The operation feed the needy” program six years ago,adding that so far sixty thousands poor and vulnerable persons have beneffited.
He described the group as a platform to promote friendship, brotherhood, community development empathy and feeding the less privilege and hungry people
“That’s what we are doing today here,so we started the exercise six years ago”.he said.
Ogan said the effort was a private sector driven initiative but added “it also involves people in Government because the platform does not recognize any division,we bring everybody together in unity , friendship and brotherhood”he said.
He said the effort will go along way in alleviating hunger especially following the prevailing hunger in the country.
According to him “you know the country is very tough, people are hungry people are starving, there is a whole lot of economic hardship,so for us, this is just our own way of reaching out, our own social contribution to what is very difficult”he said.
Over eleven thousand persons were fed in the just concluded exercise.
Areas of coverage include, Isaac Boro park, Port Harcourt prison/Macoba, Borokiri/Enugu waterside Bundu areas Waterlines and others.
Some of the beneficiaries including an 80 years old widow commended the movement for the annual programm and urged other organizations to emulate them
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