YOUR BEST IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH - BUHARI FAULTS SECURITY CHIEFS
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, June 18, 2020, expressed his dissatisfaction over rising insecurity in the country as he faults security agencies that their best is not good enough.
This response came after the President met with the Service Chiefs on Thursday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
President Buhari met with the service chiefs to discuss rising security issues, including bandit attacks on communities in the country, especially the North West region, including Katsina, his home State.
At the meeting: IGP and CAS
Buhari warned the heads of the nation’s security agencies that excuses would no longer be tolerated and asked them to do more to secure the country and its people.
Babagana Monguno, the National Security Adviser (NSA), made the comment by the President known to newsmen at the end of the meeting.
The NSA added that the President had ordered him to meet with the State Governors in the North-West and that of Niger State, to identify the problems and find solutions to them.
Recall, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Muhammed Adamu, the National Security Adviser, Babagana Mongunu, the Director-General of the Department of State Services, Yusuf Magaji, on Wednesday, June 17, visited Katsina and Sokoto to have a meeting with the State Governors on rising bandit attacks and other crimes in the State.
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Thursday’s meeting had in attendance General Abayomi Olonisakin, the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, the Chief of Air Staff, Ibok Ekwe Ibas, the Chief of Naval Staff, and Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, the Chief of Army Staff.
Others included Air Vice Marshal Mohammed Usman, the Chief of Defence Intelligence Agency, and Ahmed Abubakar, the Director-General Nigeria Intelligence Agency.
President Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, and some other president’s cabinet were also at the meeting.
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Banditry attacks have left several people dead and many others injured in the affected States. Lots of properties have been destroyed, despite the heavy concentration of security agencies in the regions.
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