The new General Officer Commanding GOC, 8th Division Nigeria Army Headquarters, Sokoto, Major General Usman Yusuf has explained how local collaborators are sabotaging the efforts of the Nigeria Army in the fight against banditry.
He condemned the attitude, saying that local collaborators are the ones who aid suspected bandits in sabotaging the efforts of Nigeria Army forces combatting banditry in the North West.
The Army Chief disclosed this in Sokoto during a courtesy call on state Governor Aminu Tambuwal at the state Government House.
He said local collaborators have on many occasions informed bandits of movement of troops especially when responding to distress calls.
He added that this often resulted in ambushes and loss of men of the Nigeria Army.
He appealed to the state government to engage the citizens on the need to collaborate and support the operation of the Nigeria Army, which is aimed at ending banditry and other criminality in the North West region.
According to him, the Nigeria Army hardly suffered in a combat attack with the bandits but lost more men in ambush and efforts of saboteurs and collaborators.
The GOC who also doubles as the Force Commander, Joint Task Force, Northwest, Operation Hadarin Daji says the Army headquarters is supplying new and sophistical equipment to prosecute the operation as he promised his men and officers will judiciously deplore those equipment to fight the battle to the finish.
