Tinubu orders more weapons to boost military operations – Shettima

President Kashim Shettima, on Wednesday, said President Bola Tinubu resolved to defeat terrorism, adding that the Government had ordered more strategic weapons to aid the Military to tackle insurgency and insecurity across the country.

Shettima stated this when he met victims of the recent attacks at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, where he also assured that those behind the recent attacks in the Country would be decisively confronted.

Stanley Nkwocha, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Communications, Office of the Vice President, in a statement, said Shettima noted that beyond the Presidential directive to security chiefs, the Federal Government is investing more in equipment and other logistics to boost the fight against terrorism across the Country.

He condemned the gory multiple explosions in Maiduguri on Monday, in which more than 100 people were affected by the incident, with over 20 confirmed dead. He described the perpetrators as barbaric, stressing that no cause justifies the killing of innocent people.

The vice president said his visit was to sympathise with the injured and families affected by the tragedy, assuring of the government’s support through the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the North East Development Commission, and the Borno State Government.

The vice president was accompanied by Borno State deputy governor Usman Kadafur; NEMA Director-General, Zubaida Umar; Chief Medical Director of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Ahmed Ahijo, and other top Government officials.