Eighty-One Division Nigerian Army, Tuesday, flagged off Operation Still Water to address insecurity during festive period in the area of responsibility in Lagos and Ogun states.
Speaking during the exercise at Terminal, Ikorodu road Ojota Motor Park, Lagos, the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 81 Division, Major General Ajunwa during the flag off, said the exercise was to assess troops in various aspects of leadership, CIMIC, critical knowledge of maneuver, and its application as well as command and control in Military operations other than war in a multi-agency setting.
The GOC noted that the exercise would provide a good opportunity for conducting joint operations with other services and relevant security agencies to strengthen inter-agency cooperation for the efficient conduct of operations in aid of civil authority.
Ajunwa also disclosed that the exercise will be based on the Nigerian Army Forward Operating Base Concept and will involve civil-military cooperation activities as well as media operations.
In his words: “The objective of the exercise among others is to reduce to the barest minimum the prevailing security threats in the riverine environment such as piracy, illegal oil bunkering activities, pipeline vandalism, cultism, militancy, terrorism, and some other common sundry crimes. The exercise will be intelligence-driven and will dovetail into real-time operations at any moment a potent threat is encountered.”
He assured that the waterways would also be secured because there would be military gunboats on patrol and soldiers would be deployed to water banks and jetties across Ogun and Lagos states.
