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—-We’re alert of information report, volition forestall immoderate attack
By Dayo Johnson, Akure
The Ondo State authorities has allayed fearfulness implicit the alarm raised by the Department of State Services (DSS) of an imminent violent onslaught connected immoderate communities successful the authorities by the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP).
A connection issued by the Information and Orientation commissioner, Idowu Ajanaku, successful Akure, said the authorities was alert of the “recent information alert memo of the State Security Services addressed to the 32 Artillery Brigade of the Nigerian Army successful Akure regarding a imaginable violent onslaught successful immoderate parts of the state, which got leaked to the media.
Ajanaku said that “the leaked memo is portion of regular quality reports that are routinely shared among information agencies and the government.”
“Such reports are a mean portion of information operations, aimed astatine identifying and preventing imaginable threats.
“These quality reports often incorporate varying levels of menace appraisal and are utilized successful associated operations by information agencies to heighten vigilance and instrumentality proactive measures.
Recall that the memo, which was signed by Hi Kana, Director of Security, DSS Ondo State Command, specifically listed Eriti Akoko and Oyin Akoko successful Akoko North-West Local Government Area, arsenic good arsenic Owo municipality successful Owo Local Government Area, arsenic imaginable targets.
The Secret Service warned that the terrorists had already commenced surveillance connected brushed targets successful the affected areas and called connected the subject to heighten information operations to forestall immoderate attack.
“Intelligence confirmed plans by members of ISWAP to transportation retired coordinated attacks connected communities successful Ondo and Kogi States anytime soon.
“The level of information alertness crossed the identified communities should beryllium instantly scaled up to forestall nonaccomplishment of lives and property.”
But successful a swift response, the authorities authorities assured the nationalist that
“These reports are being acted upon by the authorities and applicable information agencies, and indispensable precautions are being taken to guarantee information and security.
“The accent remains connected maintaining vigilance and practice betwixt information agencies and the authorities to forestall and respond to immoderate imaginable threats.
“We impulse each residents to stay calm and vigilant and to study immoderate suspicious enactment to the nearest information agency.
“We privation to reassure you that each measurement is being taken to forestall immoderate onslaught successful Ondo State.
“The Ondo State government, led by Governor Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa, is successful changeless interaction with information agencies and is taking respective steps to support residents, particularly those successful borderline communities, truthful that Ondo State tin stay arsenic 1 of the safest states successful the country.
Ajanaku appealed “to residents to stay calm, spell astir their mean regular activities, refrain from taking laws into their hands, cooperate with information agencies and supply immoderate accusation that whitethorn assistance forestall immoderate menace successful immoderate portion of the State.
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