Abuja – Defence chiefs briefed
President Muhammadu Buhari on the security situation in the country on Tuesday.
The Chief of Naval Staff, Vice
Admiral Usman Jubrin, made this known to newsmen in Abuja.
Jubrin told State House
Correspondents after the closed door meeting that the meeting, the first with
the president since his inauguration on May 29, was successful.
“Since he was inaugurated as the
President and Commander in Chief, this is the first time that we are formally
meeting him to give a general security briefing of the country and that went
very well.’’
He said the military would like to
maintain the level of successes recorded against Boko Haram terrorists and
sustain it until they are defeated.
He said the military would go back
and work on the command centre following the President’s directive that it had
to relocate to Maiduguri.
He added that the military would
report back to the President. “This won’t take too long and we must come back
as quickly as possible’’, he said.
On the resurgence of the terrorists,
Jubrin urged Nigerians to continue to support the security operatives in the
battle against Boko Haram.
“The step is for all Nigerians to
continue to support us and provide us with the needed intelligence as to the
human beings, their movements.
“Any suspicious movement can be
reported to the police and of cause the police will make that available to us.
“As we continue to put pressure on
them in the Sambisa area, they will try to run away from there and then create
bombs through Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) ’’, he said.
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