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As Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe ignited calls for government of the day to resign, President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday presided over the meeting of the National Security Council at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Buhari Resign trend erupted on Twitter following Senator Abaribe’s call for the president to resign over mounting insecurity in the country, but the agenda of today’s meeting was yet to be known at the time of this report.
However, we gathered that the meeting was a routine one where the security chiefs updated the president on security developments, particularly the ongoing fight against insurgency and crimes in some parts of the country.
We reliably learnt that the meeting had nothing to do with the calls, in some quarters, for the removal of the service chiefs as being speculated in the social media.
Recall that the Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Police Affairs, Hon Usman Kumo had advised Buhari not to rely on executive briefs from service chiefs.
Kumo in a chat with TNG said the executive briefs don’t actually tell Mr President the true situation of things as the chiefs will always tell him they are on top of the situation.
The APC, Gombe Rep said once the president gets such executive summaries and they tell him that they are on top of the situation he feels comfortable with that.
“But I sincerely believe that he should adopt a more radical approach to the situation,” Kumo said.
He explained that” the information gathering structure has to be revisited involving the DSS, CID, Local Governments and the State Governors who understand their territories better than anybody.
“The Governors have a knowledge of their territories; claiming that it’s the Federal Government problem is not right so we need to get our priorities right.
“The Governors have a fair knowledge of their territories better than anybody so there’s need for them to be adequately involved.
“There is urgent need to key in the Governors in the fight against insecurity in the country.
“If you say there is no manpower why not employ the services of equipment using drones to hit at targets to get a meaningful result at the end of the day”.
Meanwhile, those in attendance at today’s security meeting included the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, and Chief of Staff to the President, Malam Abba Kyari.
Others were the Ministers of Defence, Interior and Police Affairs, retired Maj. Gen. Bashir Magashi, Rauf Aregbesola and Maigari Dingyadi, respectively, as well as the National Security Adviser (NSA), retired Maj. Gen. Babagana Monguno, and Inspector General of Police, Muhammed Adamu.
Others were the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Gabriel Olonisakin, Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok Ekwe Ibas, Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Sadique Abubakar, Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ahmed Rufa’i Abubakar, and the Director-General of the Directorate of State Services (DSS), Yusuf Bichi.