 The United States military has explained why troops could not stop our coordinated attacks on plastic communities resulting in over 200 deaths. The Director of Defence and Media Operations, Major General Robert Bair Edward, stated that the workers and parking lot areas covering 2,300 and 15 square kilometres with over 350 villages were already damaged before troops arrived in these areas. This location has over 350 villages which are mostly dispersed. The distance between some of these villages and troops' locations is over 90 kilometres. And sometimes it is difficult to access them because of the rugged terrain which are mostly inaccessible to vehicles. On the 24th of December, at about 1,900 hours, troops received a total of about 36 distress calls from diverse locations simultaneously. The distress calls reported a series of coordinated attacks by suspected headers, militants on the isolated villages in Bocos and parts of Burkin-Lady-Lukagome area of Platu State. troops responded to the calls and were able to intervene in 19 villages forcing the militants to withdraw. Unfortunately, the havoc had been committed before troops could arrive at other villages. News Updates