Thursday, January 12, 2012

JTF, Police Adopt New Tactics Over Northerners Ultimatum


Leadership
12 January 2012


The authorities of the Joint Military Task Force code named Operation Restore Hope and the Police Commands in the Niger Delta region yesterday embarked on a new security arrangement targeted at confronting the raging anger by indigenes of the region against rising cases of killings in some Northern States, vowing to protect Northern Indigenes in the South-South against reprisal attacks.

While the military authorities had announced the re-branding of the Joint Military Task Force with an expansion to cover the nine states of the South-South and adopt a new operation structure and code name Operation Pluto Shield, the Nigerian Police Force through the Bayelsa State Command has deployed the intelligence units to all parts of the region to counter any plot to unleash attack against Northern Indigenes in the region.

The action of the JTF and the Nigerian Police was necessitated by the 21 days ultimatum issued by a group known as the Niger Delta Indigenous Movement for Radical Change, for all northern indigenes to leave the region over their alleged complicity in the rising cases of killings of Christians and Northerners in most states of North.

The group had last weekend in a statement issued and signed by its President, Nelly Emma, Secretary, John Sailor and Public Relations Officer, Mukoro Stanley, described as senseless the killings of Christians in the North by the dreaded Boko Haram and ordered all Northerners in the South, West and East of the country to return home within 21 days or be ready for reprisal attacks.

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