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Nigeria beefs up security in restive northeast region

Xinhua, April 1, 2016 Adjust font size:

Nigerian authorities have deployed 5,000 more paramilitary personnel to work in the restive northeast sub-region of the country.

Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) Abdullahi Gana on Thursday said the deployment was done in response to need of replacing officers and men of the security agency, who lost their lives on various assignments in the sub-region.

The exercise followed the deployment of a total of 6,000 policemen to liberate communities in the country's troubled northeast region, where further operations to rout Boko Haram are taking place.

The security official said the deployed personnel will further assist, particularly the police, to restore their primacy and civil authority in the liberated communities.

"The task that lies ahead of us is to consolidate on what we have so far started. Our honest contributions will go a long way in changing the narratives in the northeast in particular and Nigeria in general," the official said.

More than 80,000 towns and villages in the northeastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe were liberated last year by joint security forces in Nigeria, according to Maj.-Gen. Yushau Abubakar, the theater commander in charge of the ongoing anti-terrorism war in the country. Endit