{"id":10593,"date":"2016-08-02T23:29:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T23:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=10593"},"modified":"2016-08-02T23:29:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T23:29:23","slug":"military-commanders-meet-in-yenagoa-go-political-insisting-on-nigerias-indivisibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=10593","title":{"rendered":"MILITARY COMMANDERS MEET IN YENAGOA, GO POLITICAL, INSISTING ON NIGERIA&#8217;S INDIVISIBILITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Several military commanders in the<br \/>\nNiger Delta on Tuesday met in Yenagoa, the<br \/>\nBayelsa state capital, to review the new strategic<br \/>\ndirection of Operation Delta Safe, ODS, insisting<br \/>\nthat Nigeria\u2019s indivisibility was non-negotiable.<br \/>\nTuesday\u2019s meeting, which lasted several hours at<br \/>\nthe Joint Task Force Headquarters in Igbogene, was<br \/>\nin apparent response to recent pronouncements by<a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Joseph-Okojie.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10594\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10594\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Joseph-Okojie-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph Okojie\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Joseph-Okojie-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Joseph-Okojie-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Joseph-Okojie.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nmilitant groups in the region that they had<br \/>\nconcluded plans to create an independent republic.<br \/>\nPart of the agenda of the interactive session which drew sector heads from<br \/>\nBayelsa, Delta, Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Ondo, was to<br \/>\nforge a common front against the violent agitators<br \/>\nwho have been destroying critical oil and gas<br \/>\ninfrastructure in the region.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The JTF Commander, Rear Admiral Joseph Okojie,<br \/>\nwho spoke to newsmen on behalf of his colleagues,<br \/>\nmaintained that every Nigerian has the right to<br \/>\nmove around anywhere in the country without fear<br \/>\nof molestation.<br \/>\nWhile explaining the deployment of heavily armed<br \/>\nsecurity operatives to the region, Okojie noted that<br \/>\nthe military has the duty to maintain peace in the<br \/>\narea, assuring all residents of the readiness of the<br \/>\nmilitary to quell any threat to security in the area.<br \/>\n\u201cAll I want to say is that the federal republic of<br \/>\nNigeria belongs to all of us. The armed forces can<br \/>\nmove anywhere at anytime. ODS covers the whole<br \/>\nof Niger Delta maritime area.<br \/>\n\u201cSo, if you see heavy presence in a village or town,<br \/>\nit\u2019s just our routine patrol we are carrying out. It is<br \/>\njust the presence, and we have the right to be<br \/>\npresent there. At least nobody has complained of<br \/>\nmolestation.<br \/>\n\u201c It\u2019s also about the information passed round<br \/>\nrecently about some faceless individuals creating<br \/>\ncertain republics for themselves. This will not be<br \/>\nallowed to happen\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p><code><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several military commanders in the Niger Delta on Tuesday met in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa state capital, to review the new strategic direction of Operation Delta Safe, ODS, insisting that Nigeria\u2019s indivisibility was non-negotiable. Tuesday\u2019s meeting, which lasted several hours at the Joint Task Force Headquarters in Igbogene, was in apparent response to recent pronouncements by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[2296,2604],"class_list":["post-10593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-operation-delta-safe","tag-rear-admiral-joseph-okojie"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Joseph-Okojie.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-2KR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10595,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10593\/revisions\/10595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}