The President is unhappy with the current state of the security situation in the country.
Disclosing this to State House Correspondents on Thursday, after a security briefing, the National Security Adviser (NSA), Maj. Gen. Babagana Monguno (Rtd.), said the President had charged managers of the nation’s security to redouble their efforts.
According to Monguno, the President said, though the security chiefs had been doing their best, their best had not been good enough for the challenges facing the nation.
He has therefore declared that excuses will no longer be tolerated, even as he said he expects everyone to live up to expectations.
He also expressed displeasure over the lack of synergy amongst security forces and charged the various aspects of the security architecture to work together to solve the nation’s security challenges.
The Service Chiefs were led by the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Gabriel Olonisakin.
Present at the meeting were the Chief of Army Staff. Lt Gen. Tukur Buratai, Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok Ekwe Ibas, Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari and the Minister of Defence, retired Maj.-Gen. Bashir Magashi,
Others are: Inspector-General of Police, IGP Muhammed Adamu; the National Security Adviser (NSA) to the President, retired Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno, the Director-General of the Department of State Services, DSS, Mr Yusuf Bichi and the Director General of National Intelligence Agency, NIA, Ahmed Rufa’i.
The Nation
