Acting
President Yemi Osinbajo last night had an emergency meeting with all the
service chiefs and after the meeting, he gave a directive that the Chief of
Army staff,
Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai and the Chief of Air Staff, Sadique
Abubakar, should immediately relocate to Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.
The meeting was called for following the increasing rate of attacks being
carried out by the sect member in Borno state. Recall that some oil exploration
workers and military officers were killed and some kidnapped by Boko Haram
members some days ago.
At the
meeting, the acting president said there was need for them to be at the
military command control center in the hotbed of insurgency. The Minister of
Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali who spoke to
state house correspondents after the meeting, said:
“We just
finished a meeting with the acting president and the three service chiefs. We
agreed that they should move back to the command centre again and see what are
the things happening there. We have also agreed that we should get more
surveillance devices, cameras that will be able to see distant attackers coming
to the position of our troops. Also, the period of the raining season is a
difficult moment for us. We cannot dominate the environment like what we do
during the dry season but efforts are geared towards regaining our areas. All
these ambushes that are happening would be stopped.”
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