How military fought against insurgents in North-East – Buratai

Former Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, has stated that the military was able to defeat insurgents in the North-East through cooperation with locals in the region.

Buratai noted that the northeastern dwellers understood the need to oust the insurgents and therefore, cooperated with the military, Daily Post reported.

The former army chief made this known in an interview with newsmen on Friday.

He claimed the ability to win the hearts of the locals helped turn the table around and further assisted the military in carrying out a seamless operation.

Buratai said, “Winning the hearts and minds of the local population was a major event that turned the tables against the insurgents because it saw the emergence of the reinvigorated joint civil-military operations task force, which is a joint task force composed of military operational formations from more than one service. A central coordination HQ was established.”

The former army chief further revealed that coordinating civil and humanitarian activities for people of the region to further helped the operations of the military.

He said, “It assisted the joint force commander in humanitarian or national-assistance operations, theatre campaigns, or civil-military operations occurring concurrently.”

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