The Chief
of Army staff, Tukur Buratai, has told those agitating for an independent state
to “forget it.” Of the groups clamoring for sovereignty, the campaigns of
Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Movement for the Actualisation of
the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) are the most pronounced.
They have even had the cause to clash with
security agents.
He also promised that insurgency would soon be
a thing of the past. “Those individuals and groups that are bent on destabilizing
our country I think they have to wait till may be the next three or four
millennia for them to do that.
That is, may be the next generation of officers
and men will allow them at all,” he said. “Having been given the millennium
hero award, I want to call on all the agitators for separation and other acts
of destabilization; they better forget it, not in this era, not in this
millennium.
“I
want to say that we would continue to do our best to maintain security
atmosphere that is needed as provided for in the constitution of the federal
republic of Nigeria. We have been tasked to defend our country.
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