Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has directed Tukur Buratai, chief
of army staff and Sadique Abubakar, chief of air staff to relocate to
Maiduguri, Borno state capital, with immediate effect.
This
directive came after an emergency meeting with some service chiefs on Thursday.
The
acting president said there was a need for the military command control
centre to be at the hotbed of insurgency.
Apart
from Buratai and Abubakar, those who attended the meeting were Mansur Dan-Ali,
minister of defence; Gabriel Olonisakin, chief of defence staff and Ekwe
Ite-Ibas, chief of naval staff.
Speaking
with state house correspondents at the end of the meeting, Dan-Ali 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.”
Upon
his assumption of office, President Muhammadu Buhari ordered that the military
command and control centre be moved from Abuja to Maiduguri.
Source: The Cable
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