It’s not the military's duty to stop agitations – Chief of Defence Staff

Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Lucky Irabor has hinted that putting an end to agitations in the country is not the duty of the military.

He said this Owerri, Imo State, during an interaction with retired senior military officers from the South-East.

According to Irabor, there are constitutional provisions set up to tackle with any agitation in the country. He noted that what the military is against is violence.

He said;

“It is not the job of the military to stop anybody who wants to agitate. It’s a political thing, but what we are against is having to use the instruments of violence to bring about such agitations.

“We have a constitution that guarantees us avenues to ventilate any grievance. Why do you have to kill before you achieve your desire?

“So, anyone outside the provisions of the constitution, of course, we as army officers or security agents won’t allow that. It is out of place and we will use anyone who will use instruments of violence to achieve any agenda," Lindaikejisblog quoted.

On the other hand, the CDS has said that meetings will be conducted within the six geo-political zones in other to assist the military in resolving the growing insecurity issues in the country.