{"id":38250,"date":"2021-03-02T22:13:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T22:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=38250"},"modified":"2021-03-02T17:45:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T17:45:32","slug":"details-of-national-security-meeting-with-president-buhari-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/details-of-national-security-meeting-with-president-buhari-emerges","title":{"rendered":"Details of national security meeting with President Buhari emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the nation\u2019s security chiefs to recover all areas being occupied by insurgents, bandits and kidnappers all over the country.<\/p>\n

The National Security Adviser (NSA), retired Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno told State House correspondents that Buhari issued the order during the just-concluded meeting of the National Security Council.<\/p>\n

The meeting was presided by Buhari at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

According to him, no sovereign nation will allow a group of non-state actors to bring it down to its knees and bring the state to panic, apprehension, distrust and disorder.<\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, both the defence and intelligence organisations have been charged that while we look forward to having a peaceful, non-kinetic resolution, we will not allow this country to drift into state failure.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd with effect from today, the new service chiefs have been given directives by the Minister of Defence, conveyed by the President to the Minister of Defence, to reclaim all areas that have been dominated by bandits, by kidnappers and other scoundrels of scallywags.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn doing so, I\u2019ve also asked all the intelligence agencies to collapse all their efforts onto one platform, so that with the convergence of efforts, we will be able to give the required intelligence to the operational elements of government.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, I need to stress also that there are individuals in this country who have assumed a status that is beyond what they should be. The intelligence from our own sources, the intelligence at my disposal reveals that we have certain entities, certain individuals who are making capital out of insecurity, especially kidnapping.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a situation that has to be brought to an end and I\u2019m sending a warning to anybody who is hiding beneath a veneer of some status, whether official, in terms of an official capacity or traditional or religious, to stoke the flames of disorder.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government is very serious about this. As I said, we\u2019re drifting into a situation that we can no longer afford to lose lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not going to be blackmailed, we\u2019re going to use whatever is at our disposal, while operating within the confines of legitimacy, within the confines of legality, but the government has a responsibility to assert its will, using the instruments at its disposal to keep the state moving, alive, happy in prosperity, this will not be compromised,\u2019\u2019 he warned.<\/p>\n

Monguno revealed that the meeting also deliberated on issues of freedom of citizens to reside wherever they wish to reside as stipulated in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile at the same time, the government endorses that anybody who is a criminal, who acts on his own outside the law, should be brought to book wherever he is, but the issue here is that when we continue to pitch ourselves against each other, then this problem will only continue to be magnified.<\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, Mr President has charged everyone to be mindful of this situation because once we start to profile ourselves along ethnic or religious lines, then there\u2019ll be no end to it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen what has happened in so many countries around the globe and we do not want Nigeria to fall into that type of situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019ve had enough of violence, enough of chaos, enough of anarchy but I want to stress once more that any individual or group that thinks it can take it upon itself to cause disunity, disharmony and push the country to the brink should have a rethink.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny individual who thinks he has any support, who thinks he can undermine this government, anybody, any human being, as long as it is a citizen of this country, any person who thinks he\u2019s the cat\u2019s whiskers, or he can be rocky on the perch and lead us into a situation of unhappiness, will have himself to blame at the end of the day,\u2019\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n

The NSA further disclosed that the president had already given directives to the military and intelligence organisations to trail and flush out all the people that had been on their watch list.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cI can assure you there\u2019s quite a handful of people on our watch list. They will be trailed, they will be routed out and they\u2019ll be brought to book.<\/p>\n

`They\u2019ll be prosecuted and they\u2019ll be made an example of and anybody who wants to use this situation to blackmail the government should also think.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe President, finally, has asked us to put our heads together to try as much as possible to work on a whole of government basis, in conjunction with a whole of scientific basis to achieve a whole of nation result.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I say the whole of government, I\u2019m not saying the whole of the executive. I\u2019m saying the whole of executive, legislature and judiciary.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is what the partnership is and this partnership will work with people outside the federal establishment, that is working with the state governments, working with traditional and religious organisations and local community leaders, while at the same time trying to enhance community policing.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the nation\u2019s security chiefs to recover all areas being occupied by insurgents, bandits and kidnappers all over the country. The National Security Adviser (NSA), retired Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno told State House correspondents that Buhari issued the order during the just-concluded meeting of the National Security Council. 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