The Nigerian Navy has said it will continue to clampdown on militant groups and criminal elements currently occupying the Bakassi housing estate built by Cross River State Government for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
Some militants have been occupying the estate illegally after attacks by Endsars protesters in 2020, destroying the building assets and sacking the IDPs from the facility.
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Speaking when he received the leadership of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) led by Comrade Nsa Gill in his office in Calabar, the Nigerian Navy Ship NNS Commander, Commodore Ifeanyi Okpala called on the media to partner with security agencies by giving useful information.
He called on the citizens especially those in the riverine communities to see the Navy as partners.
In his remark, Gill lamented that the place allocated for IDPs has been taken over by the militants in the last one year.
Bakassi IDPs have been without a permanent homes since 2013 after their eviction by the Cameroonian government before Governor Ayade built the fifty units of two bedroom flats which was vandalized in the heat of Endsars protest in 2020.
(Editor: Omor Bazuaye)
