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The Nigerian Forest Security Service (NFSS), has expressed its readiness to collaborate with the Anambra Government to rescue its forests from unknown gunmen and other criminal elements.

The service vowed to comb all the forests in the state where killers and kidnappers of innocent citizens had their camps and hideouts.

The Commander of the NFSS, Anambra State Command, Destiny Jonas, made this known in a statement made available to newsmen on Thursday in Abuja.

Jonas said the call became necessary following the kidnap of Anambra lawmaker coupled with the abduction of an Anglican clergy and the killing of a Catholic priest in the state.

He said the recent brutal killings of eight persons in Chigbonu village in Umuike Ubahuekwem in Ihiala on Dec. 30, 2024 by daredevil gunmen as well as other heinous crimes being perpetrated across the state, required synergy with forest security service.

“NFSS is ever willing and ready to offer its expertise in securing the forests and bushes both for economic reasons and security purposes.

“Our operations are mostly in the forests and bushes and we know the terrain very well.

“NFSS will be most obliged to join forces with other security agencies to ensure the success of the “Operation Udo Ga Di Na Anambra Security Initiative” of the state government intended to rid the hinterlands of criminal elements unleashing terror and mayhem on the people.

“NFSS can gather intelligence to demobilise any kind of force in the forest.

“All that is needed is the collaboration of government agencies and government itself including recognition of the Nigerian Forest Security Service.

“NFSS is ready to rescue Anambra forests from unknown gunmen and other criminal elements but the need for recognition and roundtable discussions are of paramount importance,” he said.

The Commander expressed concerns that investors were fleeing from Anambra to invest in other states because of insecurity in the land.

He said that officers and men of the NFSS had been assisting the Police and other security agencies to ensure safety of those who returned to Anambra for the festive season.

Jonas emphasised that a lot more had to be done to redeem Anambra forests from the tutelage of daredevil gunmen and other criminal minds.

According to him, the impassible remote areas like Achala, Igbariam, Nsugbe and some others were hitch free because men of the NFSS were stationed in those places.

Jonas said that NFSS had identified some flashpoint bushes across the state where it would declare total war on criminal camps from January 2025.

He said all the security outfit required was permission from the authorities to enable them launch massive operations in the identified black spots.

The commander disclosed that some kidnapped victims were rescued by the operatives of the NFSS during the yuletide.

According to him, the plan of NFSS is to make sure that Anambra forests are free from criminal activities like deforestation, kidnappings and all manner of criminalities.

The commander commended the Deputy Commander-General of NFSS, in charge of Intelligence, Dr John Metchie, for his unwaivering supports to the service, describing him as an “enigma”.

He said that Metchie was not only interested in the security and safety of Anambra citizens but also in the protection of lives and property of Nigerians across the country.

He added that Anambra needed more men like Metchies to turn the state around for good.

Jonas also thanked the Commander-General of NFSS, Dr Joshua Osatimehin, for ensuring unity of purpose and cohesion in the service.

Factcheck0001:
Igbos will tell u that those comiting d crimes are either Buhari, DSS, fulani,asari, tinubu or anyone correcting them about the dangers of unknown gunmen

Factcheck0001:
Igbos will tell u that those comiting d crimes are either Buhari, DSS, fulani,asari, tinubu or anyone correcting them about the dangers of unknown gunmen

fred04:
Are they trying to say that the military and the joint task force have failed.
Despite all the road blocks.
The road blocks were supposed to help restrict the movement of arms rather its a revenue source.

beerfraud:
https://thenationonlineng.net/insecurity-we-are-ready-to-rescue-anambra-from-unknown-gunmen-nfss/

Factcheck0001:
Igbos will tell u that those comiting d crimes are either Buhari, DSS, fulani,asari, tinubu or anyone correcting them about the dangers of unknown gunmen

helinues:
Some indigenes are aiding those miscreants. Let the local people fish out the miscreants amongst themselves

helinues:
Some indigenes are aiding those miscreants. Let the local people fish out the miscreants amongst themselves

fred04:
Everything in Nigeria is political.
Some sets of politician are sponsoring and using them.

Stolen:
SOLUDO IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THOSE CAUSING MAYHEM IN ANAMBRA, LOOK NO FURTHER THAN THE MUSLIM/MUSLIM TERORIST IN ASO ROCK.


FULANI WANT TO ENETR ANAMBRA BY FIRE AND BY FORCE.

WHERE WERE THIS GROUP WEN FULANI WAS KILLING , RAPING AND ABDUCTING OUR PEOPLE.


THEY ARE ALL POWERFUL AGAINST IGBO VIGILANTE PROTECTING THEIR COMMUNITY, THE ONES NIGERIA MILITARY TARGET.



DO NOT MAKE THE MISTAKE, QUESTION THEM TO FIND OUT WHO THEY ARE, U WILL BE SURPRISE.


THEY CANNOT PROTECT BENUE WHO ARE GOING THROUGH MASS MURDER EVEN ON CHRISTMAS DAY.


TOMORROW ASARI DOKUBI WLL BRAG THAT HE DEPLOYED MEN TO ANAMBRA, WATEVA TINUBU DOES WILLL SURELY COME BACK TO BITE HIM, WHEN ASARI WILL DEPLOY FORCES TO OSUN AND LAGOS.

helinues:
Which region are those politicians from?

EmperorCaesar:

Are the indigenes ready and willing to be rescued? because you cannot wake a person who is pretending to be asleep