Nobody can divide Nigeria in my time— Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen, Tukur Buratai tells Biafran agitators

Chief of Army staff, Tukur Buratai, has told those agitating
 for an independent state to “forget it.”

Of the groups clamouring for sovereignty, the campaigns 
of Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Movement 
for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) are the most pronounced.

They have even had the cause to clash with security 
agents.

Speaking in Abuja Monday after receiving an award 
conferred on him by a coalition of over 80 civil society organisations (CSOs), Buratai said the army would not condone any act that could lead to the disintegration of the country.

He also promised that insurgency would soon be a thing
 of the past.

“Those individuals and groups that are bent on destablising our country I think they have to wait till may be the next
 three or four millennia for them to do that. That is, may be
 the next generation of officers and men will allow them at 
all,” he said.

“Having been given the millennium hero award, I want to 
call on all the agitators for separation and other acts of
destabilisation, they better forget it, not in this era, not in
 this millennium.

“I want to say that we would continue to do our best to
maintain security atmosphere that is needed as provided
 for in the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria. We have been tasked to defend our country.

“We have taken a number of measures to ensure that the
remnants of the Boko Haram terrorists who are on the run
 are finally cleared, many have surrendered, many of them have been captured.”