Nigeria’s Security Chiefs met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Defence House in Abuja on Tuesday .They used the meeting to officially brief the new president about the Boko Haram insurgency
Chief of Naval Staff,Vice-Admiral Usman Jibrin who was among the service chiefs at the meeting told reporters “The Boko haram issue, like I told you we have just given him general briefing with respect to general security situation. Specifically on Boko Haram, with the level of successes being recorded, we want to maintain the tempo, and sustain it until they are rooted out.”
Jibrin said “The command centre we are the ones to go back and work on it. Soon it will be carried out, it is a Presidential directive, it must be carried out, and we must do that as quickly as possible.
“All Nigerians should continue to support the military and provide us with the needed intelligence, as to the human beings, their movements and suspicious movement should be reported to the police of course the police will make that available to us. You know as we continue to put pressure on them, in the Sambisa area, they will try to run away from there and then create further problems, using improvised explosives devices .
“Like I told you, we are sustaining the tempo and the successes we have recoded so far, we want to continue to maintain that and if there is any suggested solutions that require amendments or alteration of what we’re doing, why not? Most especially the more they give us the intelligence, the better.”
Asked to give details of the meeting with the President, Jibrin said: “Since he was inaugurated as our Commander-in- Chief, this is the first time that we are formally meeting him to give him general security briefing of the country, and that went very well, we have been able to provide insights into the security situation of Nigeria.
The National Security Adviser Colonel Sambo Dasuki retd and Inspector General of Police,Solomon Arase were at the meeting.The other service chiefs at the meeting with Buhari included Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, Chief of Army Staff, Lt General Kenneth T. J. Minimah, Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal A. N. Amosun.
