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Buhari to service chiefs:  Do more to ensure safety of lives, property

Ezekiel Johnson
Ezekiel Johnson
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President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the nation’s service chiefs and heads of security agencies to do more to ensure the security of lives and property in the country.

The president gave the order on Thursday during a meeting with service chiefs at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

According to him, Nigerians should be able to sleep with their eyes closed.

The Chief of Naval Staff, Ibok Ekwe Ibas, made this known shortly after the meeting with the president.

Speaking with State House correspondents, he said the order came after the service chiefs briefed the president on the security situation in the country.

His words:  “The meeting was just basically to appraise Mr. President of the security situation generally after his short vacation abroad.

“The security agencies briefed him on what has been happening with particular emphasis on the proliferation of small arms and what the various agencies are doing to curtail the consequences of this proliferation.

“He has also given directives that the agencies should do much more to ensure that Nigerians go to bed and wake up feeling healthy and confident that their security is guaranteed.”

He stated further:  “You will recall during the last meeting, the IG was directed to ensure insecurity is addressed and consequently various operations were set up; Puff Adder was one of the strategies. With the set up of that operations there have been a remarkable drop in the number of kidnappings. What normally would attract attention is when a key person in government perhaps is kidnapped. On the whole, the number of kidnappings has dropped and generally I think the security situation is improving.”

Ibas said two persons had been arrested in connection with the kidnap of the district head of Daura and that they would soon be “brought to book.”

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