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

He stated this while fielding questions from the House of Representatives Committee on Army in Abuja. Buratai, who was represented at the forum by the Chief of Civil-Military Affairs, Maj.-Gen. Usman Muhammed said the army had submitted a detailed report on the OPI to the Committee. He said the military is involved in ‘Operation Lafia Dole’ in the North East and that are other subsidiary operations within the major operation. The army chief said the OPI is one of the subsidiary operations taking place in the North-East zone.

According to him, based on credible intelligence on Boko Haram terrorists, they are no longer in their enclaves. He said the OPI which started on September 22 in the North East was based on intelligence. Buratai said the military has a tradition of initiating operations towards the end of the year to reduce crime during the Yuletide. He said: “We have exercise Ayama Kpatuma in the North Central, Atilogwu Udor in the South East and Crocodile Smile in the South-South and these 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.” (NAN)



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The drill if it holds should be used to market the pro-civilian qualities of the Nigerian Army. Let people also say, "The Army is Your Friend"

you wan protest when Buratai de Vex

Smh

Trash Buhari and his people be doing anyhow.

Okay, am confused right now...

It is no longer fake news?

Nigeria!

Las las everybody issa morafckin hypocrite oo

Rubbish general n president.

he is contradicting his media team

Once it's time for election, the army will come up with stuffs like this and try to make us believe it's not about rigging. They've been having issues of terrorism and banditry up north and they don't ever take it seriously. As if other regions don't deserve maximum security during the yuletide

Who else think this was designed to make people go collect theit National identity card ,more money.

But Nigerians are busy doing red flags on Twitter ,toothless dogs

Go take care of killer BH/fulanis, armed bandits, etc and stop disturbing the life of the peaceful populace.

If this will help them flush out this plague called Boko Haram, so be it.
This is a new approach, we can't be doing the same thing and expect a different outcome.

Horrible

na xo

My country my country.....







How I wish I was making this comment from outside this country.

Is It not thesame nonsense they denied last week abi this week sef?

Illegal tax collection....

The army enforce the identification...the NIMS ger the huge demand nd charges 5k each.nd d ppl pays...new revenue outlet for fowler and tinubu....

Abi they too wan dey catch Yahoo Boys?

mamaafrik:
Who else think this was designed to make people go collect theit National identity card ,more money.

On a more serious note, it is good to have your national ID.

So they cannot differentiate between Nigerians and Bokoharam.

Let police do the job, Within one month every body will have I.D. trust me

Start from d north... Most especially borno.

I felt they said fake news

They deny the news next they implement their evil intention army have already dispatched soldiers so am not surprised weldone boy s lets keep deceiving Nigeria

The only thing wrong with this exercise is the fact that its going to be abused.

Army lying again they said on their official Twitter handle that the exercise was false now COAS is confirming it to be true na wa o

They want a crime free society. Where is the Army Colonel who helped the arrested kidnapper to escape by masterminding the death of the policemen that effected the arrest. Some people are being deceived. Unfortunately, National Assembly and Senate may not be able to summon the needed courage to do the needful.

Please everyone should get an ID card, even if it's NEPA bill showing your house address.

Forget the "Put-On-Hold" by legislators. Nigerian army don't obey laws