Tukur Buratai, chief of army staff (COAS), said this at the 2018 West Africa Social Activities (WASA) programme which ended late on Saturday in Apapa, Lagos.
He was represented by Enobong Udoh, general officer commanding (GOC), 81 division of the Nigerian Army.
According to him, WASA is one of the ways of keeping the traditions of the army.
"The climax of these exercises and operations was the 'Operation Deep Punch 2' in the north-east, which led to the fall of the Sambisa forest.
"These exercises have notably gone a long way in curbing and reducing criminality and other crimes across the country."
On several occasions, the military claimed that it has destroyed Sambisa forest yet it still conducts operations there.
This has created doubt in the public. When this issue came up at a press conference in Borno in February, Rogers Nicholas, theatre commander of Operation Lafiya Dole said: "Camp Zairo (regarded as headquarters of the sect in Sambisa) has been taken by our troops on several ocassions.
This is an asymmetric warfare; there's no boundary. We take it today, they leave the place and move to another place occupy it again. They continue to run round; but this time around, I've decided we're going to stay with them in that bush. We're pursuing them round the bush, so we're with them there."
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