The nation’s Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has issued a fresh order to Nigerian service chiefs mandating them to relocate to the terror hot zone in the country.
The Acting President during an emergency meeting with all the service chiefs in the country was reported to have directed that the Chief of Army staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai and the Chief of Air Staff, Sadique Abubakar, should immediately relocate to Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.
The emergency meeting came on the heels of the increased penetration of the Islamist-Jihadist sect group, Boko Haram in the state.
Coming after the terrorist group had snatched a convoy of about 10 vehicles of some oil exploration workers and military officers leading to the death of many, the Acting President stated that there was a need to establish a command control centre right in the middle of the terror hot region.
Speaking after the meeting, the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali told state house correspondents: “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.”