Army counsels N-Delta on militancy

By Godwin Oghre

The Nigerian Army, 19 Battalion, Koko, Delta State has asked youths in the Niger Delta  to engage  in ‘pen militancy’ instead of ‘gun militancy’ in order to fasttrack infrastructural and educational development in the region.

Its Commanding Officer, Lt. Col. J.A. Ma’aji, gave the charge yesterday at a ceremony to mark the grand finale of the just concluded Nigerian Army Day.

Ma’aji and his men also used the opportunity to distribute health care materials, including insecticide treated mosquitos’ nets to the people of the area. They also carried out sundry medical test on the sick, as well as treated them against common ailments. Over a thousand people throng the venue from within and neighboring communities.

While dispelling the claim in some quarters that military check points across the region have constantly occasioned grid-locks, the army officer said, “the presence of military personnel in the and communities, particularly in Sapele where kidnappings have increased in recent time, is an advantage to the people as the crime rate in the area has been highly ameliorated.”

 

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