President Muhammadu Buhari
Insecurity:
President Muhammadu Buhari
Insecurity: FG Orders Security Agencies to End
Challenges
President Mohammadu Buhari has directed security agencies in the
country to put an end to all the security challenges facing the
nation saying that government would no longer tolerate the
deteriorating security situation in the country.
The President who stated this today in Katsina affirmed
government’s determination to ensuring the protection of lives and
properties of Nigerians
Represented by the Honourable Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf
Adesoji Aregbesola, the President said that he was in the State to
engage the State Government on ways to tackle the security
challenges facing the State and its environs.
According to him, the wanton destruction of lives and properties in
Katsina State and the entire country through banditry, kidnappings,
armed robbery, rape, insurgency, and other forms of criminalities
can no longer be tolerated.
Aregbesola who was accompanied by the Heads of Security Agencies in
charge of internal security in the country, reiterated the
President’s resolve to ensuring internal security through
strengthening the internal security architecture of the Ministry of
Interior.
He assured the people of Katsina State and the entire North West
Zone of the country of the Federal Government’s determination to
end the spate of insecurity and all criminalities plaguing Katsina
State and the entire North West Zone of the country.
The President also charged the Batch ‘B’ of Agro Rangers under
training at the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, (NSCDC)
Katsina, to concentrate adequately on the training being received,
with particular reference to using it on graduation, to tackle the
challenges of hoodlums, extremists, kidnappers and other acts of
criminalities that are terrorizing the people of the State and its
environs.
He directed the security agencies in charge of internal security to
continue to collaborate with relevant sister government agencies
through intelligence sharing, with the view to putting an end to
the prevailing security challenges facing the country.
“The Federal Government reposes full confidence in your Agency, to
nip all these menace in the bud before it escalates”, he said.
Speaking earlier, the Executive Governor of Katsina State, Alhaji
Aminu Bello Masari expressed confidence in the President Muhammadu
Buhari’s Administration for his determination to restore peace and
security in Katsina State, North West Nigeria and indeed the entire
nation.
He said that the people of Katsina State would ever be grateful to
President Muhammadu Buhari, for his sympathy to the people of the
State, adding that they are also grateful to the Honourable
Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola for representing the
President on the visit.
Masari said that with Aregbesola at the helm of affairs in the
Ministry of Interior, the President Muhammadu Buhari’s
Administration will soon witness a tremendous improvement in
internal security.
In his remarks, the Emir of Kastisina Dr. Abdulmunini Kabir Usman
expressed confidence in Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola as Minister of
Interior appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari to spearhead the
renewed vigour in tackling the problems of internal security in the
country, noting his antecedents when he was Governor of Osun
State.
He enjoined the Minister to develop a lasting synergy among all
security agencies in which intelligence and information sharing is
key.
SIGNED
Mohammed Manga
Director (Press & Public Relations)
For: Honourable Minister