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.”
