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Insiders from the Military High Command have revealed to Vigil360 why the Military hierarchy ordered the deployment of troops for the commencement of Exercise Python Dance II in the South East and parts of the South South, Nigeria.


A senior official at the Defence Headquarters, DHQ, who craved anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue disclosed exclusively to Vigil360 that the exercise was prompted by a highly sensitive and classified Intelligence report that members of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have secretly imported arms and ammunitions and were awaiting delivery in order to commence range exercises (training) for the newly recruited Biafra Security Service (BSS).


The Official said "the intelligence report troubled all security chiefs hence the unanimous decision to move in to frustrate the delivery of the imported weapons and other plans by the group. The decision to include Cross River and River state in the operation was to frustrate possible use of waterways for the transportation of the weapons, and I want to tell you that the Nigerian Navy also made similar deployment in these areas.


When Vigil360 sought to know if the weapons intercepted recently in Lagos were meant for IPOB, he said, "I'm yet to get detailed information regarding the investigation."


The source fingered Turkey in IPOB agitation and posited that since some officials from Turkish diplomatic circles were being sympathetic to IPOB agitation, one could be safe to draw the inference more so that all weapons recently intercepted in the country reportedly emanated from the Turkey.


When asked the reason why Turkey could support such agitation, he said Vigil360 should go and ask Abdulkadir Erkahraman. He said Erkahraman, a Turkish Diplomat took to his Facebook page on Thursday to write unprintable things about President Buhari, claiming that the President was an idiot and would be killed by "Biafran Army soon."


The source maintained that the Turkey dimension opens a new vista to the ongoing investigation in its entirety as security agencies are not leaving any stone unturned.


According to him, "they are investigating the possibility of Turkey providing military training for IPOB members within or outside the country". He quoted the diplomat as saying “The Army of the Biafrans is coming and they will fight you. The Biafrans are saying they don’t want to fight, they want to negotiate but you are killing them," to validate his position.


When Vigil360 expressed reservation about the possibility of IPOB taking arms against the Federal Government, the source said even before IPOB became what it is today, Kanu had approached participants at the 2015 World Igbo Congress held in Los Angeles to request Ndigbo in Diaspora to provide arms and ammunition to enable his group pursue the Biafra struggle. He however said the group blatantly refused to accede to his demand.


On the way forward since the operation is generating reactions, the source said national security interest supersedes all other interest and stressed that the operation would achieve the purpose it was ordered before it will be called-off.


He hinted that the soldiers will soon commence stop and search operations in the area as there are unconfirmed reports that some militant groups in River state may have moved weapons to Abia for the group to use and enforce the election boycott in planned for the upcoming Anambra gubernatorial poll.


Meanwhile, the Southeast Governors not relenting in the effort to seek an amicable resolution to the situation having earlier drum their support for the deployment of troops in the region meant to check the rising incidence of kidnapping, army robbers, insecurity and the myriad of security challenges bedevilling the region.

 

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