You Can’t Divide Nigeria In My Time, Buratai Tells Biafran Agitators

Chief of Army staff, Tukur

Buratai, has told those agitating for an independent

state to "forget it."



Of the groups clamouring for

sovereignty, the campaigns

of Independent People of

Biafra (IPOB) and the

Movement for the

Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra

(MASSOB) are the most

pronounced. They have even had the cause

to clash with security agents. Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur

Buratai Speaking in Abuja Monday

after receiving an award

conferred on him by a

coalition of over 80 civil

society organisations (CSOs),

Buratai said the army would not condone any act that

could lead to the

disintegration of the country.



He also promised that

insurgency would soon be a

thing of the past. "Those individuals and

groups that are bent on

destablising our country I

think they have to wait till

may be the next three or four

millennia for them to do that. That is, may be the next

generation of officers and

men will allow them at all,"

he said. "Having been given the

millennium hero award, I

want to call on all the

agitators for separation and

other acts of destabilisation,

they better forget it, not in this era, not in this

millennium. "I want to say that we would

continue to do our best to

maintain security

atmosphere that is needed

as provided for in the

constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria. We have

been tasked to defend our

country. "We have taken a number of

measures to ensure that the

remnants of the Boko Haram

terrorists who are on the run

are finally cleared, many have

surrendered, many of them have been captured