Nigeria: Operation Python Dance II - IPOB, MASSOB, ECA, Others Kick Against Military Deployment

11 September 2017

THE South Eastern polity was awash, yesterday, with condemnation for the planned deployment of combat-ready personnel for a special operation, code-named Egwu-Eke 11 (Python Dance 11) in the five states of the zone.

Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Turkur Burutai, who was represented by the Chief of Training and Operations, Maj.-Gen D.D. Ahmadu, said at a briefing, weekend, that the exercise, the second phase of the operation that was launched 12 months ago, would be conducted in 82 Division area of responsibility that covers the five states between September 15 and October 14, 2017.

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