The Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen, Taoreed Lagbaja, Monday, says Operation Hadin Kai in the North East have effectively curtailed Boko Haram and other terrorist activities in the Region.
The Army Chief disclosed this in Abuja at the Chief of Army Staff combined Second and Third Quarters Conference 2023.
He said the efforts of the military has resulted in the large-scale surrender of members of the terrorist groups and the submission of a large cache of arms and ammunition.
Lagbaja added that the people of Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa States are steadily picking up their livelihood as the military, in collaboration with the government, was helping to restore governance to the hitherto deprived areas.
He stressed that the operational activities of the troops in Operation Hadarin Daji and Operation Whirl Punch have also greatly checkmated banditry and insurgency in the North West and North Central Regions of the Country.
Lagbaja stated: “It is heart-warming to note that our activities in Operation Hadin Kai in the North East have effectively curtailed Boko Haram and other terrorist activities in the Region.
“We have equally heightened our efforts in containing criminalities perpetrated in the South East Region by the Indigenous People of Biafra and Eastern Security Network.
“Through Operation UDO KA, our troops have, in collaboration with other relevant stakeholders, put an end to the infamous sit-at-home order that has almost crippled socio-economic activities in the Region. Law-abiding citizens of the Region now go about their businesses and everyday life.
“Similarly, our joint efforts with various government agencies have quelled attempts by criminals to disrupt economic activities in the South West Region.
“Our troops’ upscaled anti-illegal oil bunkering operations in Operation Delta Safe in the South South Region have also yielded tremendous outcomes.”
The Army Chief stressed that although they are not there yet in terms of the level of success they hope to achieve in the anti-illegal bunkering operations; there was no denying the fact that they have seen appreciable improvement in the country’s daily crude production.