The Director, Defence Media Operations, Major General Markus Kangye said Thursday that Nigerians stand a better chance to assess whether the country’s security situation is deteriorating or improving than foreigners who ranked Nigeria number 8 on the Global Terrorism Index 2024.
Fielding questions during bi – weekly (Feb. 27 to March 6 , 2025 ) ,on the activities of the military on counter insurgency operations in the country, Major General Kangye asserted that the security situation in the country is improving and not as worse as foreigners would want us to believe.
“Though, I am not countering what they put out there but journalists on this beat and Nigerians stand a better place to access the security situation in the country,” he said, buttressing his point with an analogy of a visitor telling a head of a family the situation in his house.
Major General Kangye explained that the sit – at- home defiance order in the South East Zone was not the making of the military nor the political class but that of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, with its Eastern Security Network .
” We have label them as criminals, extremist violence and terrorists, so what Operations FASAN YAMA and Operations HADIN KAI in the North West and North East respectively are doing with these elements, is exactly what Operation UDOKA is doing in South East.
He said the military is doing it best across the country to crush terrorists and extremist violence elements and the results of their efforts are in everywhere.
Besides, ranking Nigeria 8 in Global Terrorism Index of 2024 the report however acknowledged that in the north east of the country, Boko Haram suffered setbacks this year with the killing of its leader”
“While in the northwest, both Boko Haram and the Islamic State in West Africa expanded their presence and influence, building ties with local communities, criminal gangs, and herder-affiliated militia.”