Service Chiefs and Inspector Genera of Police after their meeting with President Muhamnmadu Buhari t the Presidential Villa Abuja yesterday.
…Abuja/Kaduna road now safe – IG
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the country’s security chiefs to end banditry and kidnapping in the country.
Buhari gave the order during a Security Council meeting held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja yesterday.
Members of the Security Council are the Chief of Defence Staff, General Gabriel Olonisakin, Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Ibok Ekwe Ibas and Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Abubakar Sadique.
Others are, National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno; Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ahmed Abubakar, acting Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu and the Director General of Department for State Service (DSS), Yusuf Magaji Bichi.
Speaking after the meeting, Olonisakin told State House correspondents that the president ordered them to deal ruthlessly with the bandits and kidnappers.
“The security meeting we just had with Mr. President today (yesterday) is to review the strategy that we are adopting in confronting security issues in Zamfara State especially and other places nationwide.
“And this review strategy is to address all the issues including kidnapping, banditry and other associated issues confronting the nation and we are coming out with a revised strategy to handle those challenges.
“Yeah, the marching order is for us to deal with this issue immediately and ruthlessly and ensure that all those bandits are immediately dealt with and all those issues that are bordering with our security are properly addressed,” he said. Also speaking, acting IGP Adamu said the Kaduna -Abuja highway is now safe.
“We have cleared the roads, we have arrested a lot of kidnappers and in confrontation with some of them, some were fatally injured. So the road is cleared. Our patrol teams, the combined security services that are patrolling the road are constantly there 24 hours,” he said.
Source: Daily Trust
