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December 21, 2019
The Nigeria Defense Headquarters has said that ‘OperationWhirl Stroke’, OPWS had achieved its set mandate and would wind down in phases.
The Acting Director, Defence Information, Brigadier GeneralOnyema 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 amandate to end the herders/farmers crisis, covers Benue, Taraba and NasarawaStates.
Nwachukwu explained that the Defense Headquarters is notplanning to immediately shot down the operation even though operation hadachieved its set mandate. He said that the proposed winding-up would be inphases.
The Spokesman explained that the Task Force had, during theoperations, carried out both kinetics and non- kinetics approaches so as to restorepeace in the three states.
The Force Commander, OPWS, Major General Adeyemi Yekini, whoalso spoke, disclosed that the outfit had conducted 23 peace meetings withstakeholders as a result of the Tiv/Jukum crisis.