{"id":128300,"date":"2020-10-19T04:52:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T03:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/?p=128300"},"modified":"2020-10-19T04:52:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T03:52:09","slug":"crocodile-smile-not-going-after-endsars-protesters-says-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/crocodile-smile-not-going-after-endsars-protesters-says-army\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Crocodile Smile\u2019 not going after #EndSARS protesters, says army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Army says \u201cOperation Crocodile Smile\u201d has nothing to do with #EndSARS protest.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Sunday, Musa Sagir, army spokesman, said it is wrong to say the exercise is targeted at protesters who are out in major cities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Sagir said the army has been professional since the protest started \u201cnearly two weeks ago\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe attention of the Nigerian Army (NA) has been drawn to some social media stuff wrongfully condemning the Army and its Leadership over the announcement of Exercise CROCODILE SMILE VI particularly the Cyber Warfare Component of the Exercise. This year\u2019s Exercise CROCODILE SMILE is scheduled to commence from the 20th of October to the 31st of December 2020 has no relationship with any lawful protest under any guise whatsoever,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the records, Exercise CROCODILE SMILE is a yearly exercise in the NA Calendar\/Forecast of Events which traditionally holds from October to December of each year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThus, to now insinuate that it is an exercise meant to stifle the ongoing ENDSARS protest is to say the least highly misinformed. Exercise CROCODILE SMILE VI has nothing to do with the ongoing protest and the NA has never been involved in the ongoing protest in any form whatsoever. So far, the army has acted professionally since the civil protest started over two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe army hereby enjoins all law abiding Nigerians to go about their lawful activities unhindered as the Exercise has nothing to do with ENDSARS protest, but a yearly event set out to train NA officers and soldiers in its efforts to ensuring safety and security of Nigeria and her citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Army says \u201cOperation Crocodile Smile\u201d has nothing to do with #EndSARS protest. In a statement on Sunday, Musa Sagir, army spokesman, said it is wrong to say the exercise is targeted at protesters who are out in major cities across the country. Sagir said the army has been professional since the protest started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":128301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,15,2],"tags":[55621,2157,55693,39757,55692],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Crocodile Smile\u2019 not going after #EndSARS protesters, says army | New Mail Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/crocodile-smile-not-going-after-endsars-protesters-says-army\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018Crocodile Smile\u2019 not going after #EndSARS protesters, says army | New Mail Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Nigerian Army says \u201cOperation Crocodile Smile\u201d has nothing to do with #EndSARS protest. 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