The Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Tukur Buratai on Thursday, October 31, said that the Operation Positive Identification (OPI) would not hinder the day-to-day activities of Nigerians.

Buratai made this known while fielding questions from the House of Representatives Committee on Army in Abuja.

Represented by the Chief of Civil-Military Affairs, Maj.-Gen. Usman Muhammed, Buratai said that the army had submitted a detailed report on the OPI to the committee.

He said that the military is involved in ‘Operation Lafia Dole’ in the North East and that are other subsidiary operations within the major operation.

Buratai said that the OPI is one of the subsidiary operations which is ongoing in the North East zone.

According to him, based on credible intelligence on Boko Haram terrorists, they are no longer in their in enclaves, spreading out away from their traditional strongholds.

The Chief said that the OPI which started on Sept. 22 in the North East was based on the intelligence.

Buratai said that the military has a tradition of initiating operations towards the end of the year to reduce crime during the Yuletide.

“We have exercise Ayama Kpatuma in the North Central, Atilogwu Udor in the South East and Crocodile Smile in the South South are aimed at addressing the security challenges in those zones.

“It is a training exercise and at the same time, it is a true operation whereby we use the opportunity to carry out activities to checkmate criminality and crime within those areas.

“This time around, we feel that we can extend the OPI to some of these areas where we are going to conduct some of these exercises,” he said.

He explained that the OPI is an intelligence led activity based on credible information by which the army go to specific areas and effect arrests.

Buratai said that some insurgents had been arrested though the process in the North East where the operation is ongoing.

He said that the citizens would not notice any change in their day-to-day activities and that there would not be extra check points.

Buratai said that there would not be additional troops on the streets and the rules of engagement would thoroughly observed.

He said that the operation was in collaboration with other security agencies like National Intelligence Agency (NIA), the Department of State Service (DSS) among others.

“The exercise is nothing too different, it is something that is going to assist us add value to what we are doing in the north east,” he added.

Buratai said that President Muhammadu Buhari was in support of the operation as well as the Minister of Defence and the Chief of Defence Staff.

Earlier, the Chairman, Rep. Abdulrazak Namdas (APC-Adamawa) said that the house has it on good authority that the Army intends to commence OPI on November 1 nationwide.

He said that majority of Nigerians understand the OPI as carrying some form of identification when they go about their daily activities.

Namdas said that though the major role of the army is to safeguard the territorial integrity of Nigeria, when there critical internal security challenges, the army could be invited.

According to him, we are happy that the army has been doing that in the South South, North West, North Central and in the North East.

Namdas said that there were a lot of issues in the zones ranging from Boko Haram, pipeline vandalism, kidnapping, cattle rustling, banditry among others.

Source: https://1stnews.com/buratai-reveals-operation-positive-identification-to-checkmate-crime-criminality/

Cc Mynd44

How do you identify people positively when NIMC said they needed fund to issue out identities cards and they have not even issued out up to 10million IDs in a country of 150million.

How do you identify someone positively when fake ID s can be printed from any printing press.

A guy who was our former neighbor went to rob yesterday night, police caught them then...he denied it and even said that he slept in our hostel yesternight ....then police asked him to describe the place he slept and he described our hostel in oto awori
This morning around 11 am police came to our hostel and they arrested my roommate who is the only one around...he told them that those thiefs did not sleep over in our hostel that it was all lies but they arrested him and locked him up since morning...we also went to school to mobilise student Union leaders who went to the police station to protest but they chased everyone out
Now they said he is a partner in crime and that he will be charged to court on criminal case... please any good Samaritan to come to our help coz I don't know what to do again .....right now I can't go to hostel for fear of being arrested too and tagged a criminal
Please any body who can help us should call me on 08122934592 we are innocent students

Holyvurgin17:
A guy who was our former neighbor went to rob yesterday night, police caught them then...he denied it and even said that he slept in our hostel yesternight ....then police asked him to describe the place he slept and he described our hostel in oto awori
This morning around 11 am police came to our hostel and they arrested my roommate who is the only one around...he told them that those thiefs did not sleep over in our hostel that it was all lies but they arrested him and locked him up since morning...we also went to school to mobilise student Union leaders who went to the police station to protest but they chased everyone out
Now they said he is a partner in crime and that he will be charged to court on criminal case... please any good Samaritan to come to our help coz I don't know what to do again .....right now I can't go to hostel for fear of being arrested too and tagged a criminal
Please any body who can help us should call me on 08122934592 we are innocent students

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Mynd44 pls move to FP

How will they identify non Nigerians that influx the Hausa community during the 2019 presidential election ? I't obvious they all have PVC.

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