THE PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA REACTS TO THE PRESENCE OF ARMY ...........
Right in: Presidency reacts to the presence of the army in the state of Abia, southeast
Special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari in the prosecution, Okoi Obono-Obla, has said that there is nothing wrong with the presence of the army in the southeast. Obono-Obla said that the president has the power to deploy the army to any part of Nigeria and the state of Abia remains part of the country. "From the foregoing, it is clear that, under Article 8 (3) of the Armed Forces Act, the President, in exercise of his powers to determine the operational use of the Armed Forces, orders that the deployment of any branch of the Armed Forces Armed for the purpose of maintaining and securing public safety and public order. "This is precisely what the President did when he deployed the Armed Forces to the Abia State of Nigeria to maintain and protect public safety and public order. In other words, the President may, under certain circumstances, deploy the Nigerian Armed Forces to carry out law enforcement duties. "Examples of the use of the Armed Forces to maintain law and order sometimes in this country abound, why detractors of the Federal Government suggest that the deployment of the Armed Forces in the state of Abia or in the Southeast region is equivalent to the invasion?, citing the provisions of section 217 subsections 2 (a) (b) (c) -Obla argued that "in grammatical or literary or contextual form, the description or mark of the deployment of the Armed Forces of Nigeria to the State of Abia to maintain public security and public order as an invasion, in the face of the IPOB threat, is absolutely wrong. "An invasion is a military offensive in which large parts of fighters of a geopolitical entity enter aggressively into territory controlled by another entity, generally with the aim of conquering, liberating or reestablishing control or authority over a territory, forcing the division of a country.
Meanwhile, the Nigerian army in Enugu has said that the military exercise in the southeast, called Operation Python Dance 2, is not addressed to the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Colonel Sagir Musa, deputy director of Public Affairs Division 82, on Tuesday, September 12, said this when he informed journalists from the NUJ Secretariat, Umuahia, about the activities of the troops deployed in Abia for the exercise. Musa ruled out speculation that the army was besieging Kanu, saying the exercise "is not addressed to the IPOB leader" or to anyone or any group.
Special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari in the prosecution, Okoi Obono-Obla, has said that there is nothing wrong with the presence of the army in the southeast. Obono-Obla said that the president has the power to deploy the army to any part of Nigeria and the state of Abia remains part of the country. "From the foregoing, it is clear that, under Article 8 (3) of the Armed Forces Act, the President, in exercise of his powers to determine the operational use of the Armed Forces, orders that the deployment of any branch of the Armed Forces Armed for the purpose of maintaining and securing public safety and public order. "This is precisely what the President did when he deployed the Armed Forces to the Abia State of Nigeria to maintain and protect public safety and public order. In other words, the President may, under certain circumstances, deploy the Nigerian Armed Forces to carry out law enforcement duties. "Examples of the use of the Armed Forces to maintain law and order sometimes in this country abound, why detractors of the Federal Government suggest that the deployment of the Armed Forces in the state of Abia or in the Southeast region is equivalent to the invasion?, citing the provisions of section 217 subsections 2 (a) (b) (c) -Obla argued that "in grammatical or literary or contextual form, the description or mark of the deployment of the Armed Forces of Nigeria to the State of Abia to maintain public security and public order as an invasion, in the face of the IPOB threat, is absolutely wrong. "An invasion is a military offensive in which large parts of fighters of a geopolitical entity enter aggressively into territory controlled by another entity, generally with the aim of conquering, liberating or reestablishing control or authority over a territory, forcing the division of a country.
Meanwhile, the Nigerian army in Enugu has said that the military exercise in the southeast, called Operation Python Dance 2, is not addressed to the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Colonel Sagir Musa, deputy director of Public Affairs Division 82, on Tuesday, September 12, said this when he informed journalists from the NUJ Secretariat, Umuahia, about the activities of the troops deployed in Abia for the exercise. Musa ruled out speculation that the army was besieging Kanu, saying the exercise "is not addressed to the IPOB leader" or to anyone or any group.
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