I Will Not Condone Working At Cross Purposes, Tinubu Warns Service Chiefs

Calls on security agencies to redouble their efforts
Demands for frequent consultations, timely reports
Calls for coordinated national security

Eko Hot Blog reports that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has asked Service Chiefs to work together in order to strengthen the fight against insecurity.

Tinubu, who met with the security chiefs in the country for the first time since assuming office on Thursday, said all agencies must work to achieve one single purpose and added that working at cross purposes and colliding with each other is not something that he will condone.

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Addressing journalists after the meeting, the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, said, “The President has revealed that in moving this country forward, he needs the security agencies to redouble their efforts. And he also pointed out that his own philosophy is one of the contemporary security measures dealing with the requirements of the time.

“He has made it very clear that he will not accept a situation in which our fortunes keep declining. And his own trajectory is that national security has to be coordinated, there has to be wherever whatever it says, whether it is a basket system, but there must be a clearing house.

“All agencies must work to achieve one single purpose. Working at cross purposes and colliding with each other is not something that he will condone. He has made it very, very clear that all the security agencies must comply with the demands of coordination, with the demands of frequent consultations and also timely reports which must be acted on.”

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