Chief
of Army Staff Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai has warned that the Army will use force if
the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) and other militant groups reject dialogue with
the Federal Government.
Gen.
Buratai, who was represented by the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 82
Division, Enugu, Maj.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, spoke yesterday after inaugurating
the two-storey administrative headquarters complex, Olympic-size swimming pool
and two other projects at the 2 Brigade of the Army. He also inaugurated four
projects at the Military Hospital on Aba Road, Port Harcourt, the Rivers State
capital.
He
said, “Government is still committed to dialogue (with Niger Delta militants).
Whereby this cannot go on, then there could be resort to other means. The
non-kinetic means has always been the source first, before government can recourse
to the kinetic means (dropping bombs and using bullets, using lethal force/full
military action/war or killing people).
“So,
there is the need for the Niger Delta Avengers to see reason and dialogue with
government.
“Each
time the army goes out to work, it works in support of the civil authority and
we will continue to do that. If there is a need for the military authority to
support the civil authority (during Rivers July 30 rerun), based on need from
the police, we will continue to do just that".
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