JTF Operations Commander Assures Minimal Civilian Casualties.

General Officer Commanding 8 Division of the Nigerian Army and Commander of Joint Taskforce in the North West Operation HADARIN DAJI Major- General Godwin Mutkut, has clarified that all the operations being carried out across the theatre were being done professionally by the troops in order to minimize civilian casualties

General Mutkut who made the clarification in Sokoto while fielding questions from Defence on tour of Operation Hadarin Daji in the North West, dismissed the allegations of indiscriminate bombing against the Troops, adding that, the military is disciplined and a professional organization that, takes precautionary measures to ensure that it minimizes civilian casualties during operations.

General Mutkut said all the people that were bombed in the community were bandits, stressing that, the military, working with other sister security agencies comprising the Department of State Services, Police, Civil Defence Corps, and locals, gathered accurate intelligence on bandits’ locations before embarking on bombings and airstrikes.

On the Operations of the Troops, the GOC explained that the Troops have carried out a series of operations, comprising ambushes and raids on the bands down to their enclaves, which were being destroyed along with their structures

Speaking earlier, the leader of the team, who is also the Deputy Director of Media Operation, Brigadier General Mohammed Dahiru Abumawashi, said, the essence of the tour was to give the true perspective of military operational activities and also to avoid manipulation of military operational occurrences by enemies of the Nigerian state to perpetrate their evil acts of portraying the country in a bad light.