By CHARLES IWUOHA

The leadership Centre for Civil and Post Trauma Rehabilitation has said that the recent directive for a renewed onslaught against banditry in the North West region issued to troops by the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-General Olufemi Oluyede, is no doubt yielding a remarkable outcome.

The group stated that the killing of top and notorious banditry commanders in Zamfara axis, including hasty surrender of different terrorist groups around the Katsina banditry corridors, is evidently indicative that a core infantry General with north east combat experience both as former Core Commander of Infantry and a General officer Commanding (GOC), Chief is fully in charge and truly out to finally and completely Stamp out terror and insurgency in our body polity.

This is contained in a statement issued on Monday by Babanagari Suleiman, Centre Director of the group, and made available to journalists.

The civil society group said that, having followed the fight against banditry with keen interest over the years, it has observed ?steady decline of military exploits against the insurgents over time is being reversed within this short time frame of assumption of office by the COAS in line with the Presidential marching orders in tandem with Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu towards ensuring peace and security across Nigeria.?

The statement reads in part: ?At the Leadership Centre, we are confident that sustaining the current heat in the North West is a sin qua non not only for the peace in the region, but also towards a replicate in the North East and in the shortest possible time achieving an enduring peace in Nigeria as a whole.

?While using this medium to equally appreciate the ground combatants for carrying out issued orders satisfactorily thus far, the COAS is also hereby urged to prioritize welfare and troop motivation in order to maintain the success tempo.

?Insecurity anywhere is insecurity everywhere. Therefore, citizens must view security issue as everybody's business, thus, everyone must be alive to citizenship responsibilities and in this regards, offering useful intelligence to the troops to enable them speedily deal with the Challenges; safeguarding innocent lives and the defence of territorial integrity of Nigeria nation.?

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