Nigeria Military denies plans to carry out ‘Operation Positive Identification’
Nigeria military has disowned the report about a controversial operation that the Army was supposed to carry out around the country.
Part of the circular that was going round on social media indicated that effective from 1st November to 23rd December, 2019, “uniformed Nigerian Army Personnel will be parading the roads in an exercise known as OPI”.
All residents in locations where the operations were to take place were advised to always carry their means of identification and obey all legal directives from the security agents.
“OPI requires residents to move with your means of identification – National Identity Card, Voters’ Registration Card, Driver’s licence, International Passport or other valid official identification,” the circular read.
The announcement was met with criticism from the general public, and the House of Reps called for a halt on the operation until the public was properly sensitised.
Reacting to the issue, the Nigerian Army took to Twitter to mark the information as ‘fake alert’ and captioned it ‘Beware’. Although some people see this as a tongue-in-cheek approach to rescinding on the operation, but the rebuttal is expected to put the unnecessary action to rest.
