The Nigeria Defense Headquarters has said that ‘Operation Whirl Stroke’, OPWS had achieved its set mandate and would wind down in phases.
The Acting Director, Defence Information, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu announced this in Gbise, Katsina-Ala Local Government Area, during a media tour of crisis-hit areas in Benue and Taraba state.
The Operation, which was launched on May 2018, with a mandate to end the herders/farmers crisis, covers Benue, Taraba and Nasarawa States.
Nwachukwu explained that the Defense Headquarters is not planning to immediately shot down the operation even though operation had achieved its set mandate. He said that the proposed winding-up would be in phases.
The Spokesman explained that the Task Force had, during the operations, carried out both kinetics and non- kinetics approaches so as to restore peace in the three states.
The Force Commander, OPWS, Major General Adeyemi Yekini, who also spoke, disclosed that the outfit had conducted 23 peace meetings with stakeholders as a result of the Tiv/Jukum crisis.
