Despite Pervasive Killings, Buhari Says Service Chiefs Have Performed Well

Despite the widespread insecurity and perennial Killings across the country, President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday expressed satisfaction with the performance of service chiefs.

Buhari’s passage of vote of confidence on the security chiefs is also coming on the heels of the national assembly resolution calling for their dismissal.

Speaking during the National Security Council meeting held at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the president said he is convinced the security chiefs are ‘doing their best’ to address the challenges

Details of the meeting were divulged by the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, who addressed journalists after the meeting.

“The President said to the Service Chiefs, ‘you are doing your best as far as I am concerned but there is still a lot more to be done. I am more concerned about the promise we made to the larger Nigerian society and I am ordering an immediate re-engineering of the entire security apparatus,’” Mr Monguno said.

The NSA said President Buhari, however, ordered the security chiefs to reorganise their strategies.

“He has also directed that we must rejig our strategies both in terms of operations and intelligence. We must rejig our strategy to prevent further catastrophe; that we must bear in mind that we owe a duty that elected his government and at the end of the day, without securing the nation, all other things like revamping the economy and fighting corruption cannot be addressed.”

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Mr Monguno said the defence minister, Bashir Magashi, is currently working on a strategy that will help resolve the security challenges across the country.

“Based on the marching orders given to us by the president form the last time till now, basically, these are operational matters that are best dealt with by the Minister of Defence.

“I know there is something he is working on which has led to this meeting being delayed slightly because it was actually supposed to take place before the sallah break but I think one or two things have come up which I don’t want to disclose but I want Nigerians to be comfortable that something is being done since the last marching order,” he said.