DHQ Scraps Operation Pulo Shield, Launches Operation Delta Safe

   

The OPERATION PULO SHIELD in Niger Delta has been scrapped with immediate effect and replaced with OPERATION DELTA SAFE.


Brigadier General Rabe Abubakar, Acting Director Defence Information, in a statement on Wednesday said this was in line with the Defence Headquarters’ initiative to restructure the Joint Task Force for better service delivery, efficiency and effectiveness in line with the vision and mission of the Chief of Defence Staff to contain the current security challenges in the Niger Delta, especially protection of critical national assets and provision of security in the area.

Under the new arrangement, the Joint Operational Areas of the new outfit have been delineated into 3 sectors and 5 Operational Bases, covering the entire Niger Delta, Ondo and Akwa Ibom States.

The Headquarters of OPERATION DELTA SAFE would be in Yenagoa.

The development, according to the Chief of Defence Staff, General Gabriel Olonisakin became expedient in order to inject new tactics and robust operational initiative to tackle the emerging security challenges in the Niger Delta region such as piracy, bunkering, vandalism and other criminalities prevalent in the area.