President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday received briefings from security chiefs in the country, a second update on the situation in the country, since his return.
President Buhari had earlier in the day condemned the wanton killings in other parts of the country challenging security and law enforcement agencies to rise to the occasion and end this blight on the image of the country.
Emerging from the meeting, the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, told reporters that they briefed the President on the security situation within the country and job being done by the army to defend the integrity of the of the nation.
“I visited the commander in chief to update him on the security situation that the army is involved and defending the territorial integrity of the country, the welfare of the troops, the state of our general administration, basically that is why I came,” Buratai said.
Despite the resurgence of terrorism attacks, mostly in the Northern region of the country, the Army Chief assured that the Nigerian military would continue to defend the Constitution of the country.
“The President is happy with the Nigerian army and the military. We will continue to do our work to defend the Constitution of this country and we assured him of our absolute loyalty and ensure we discharge our constitutional responsibility,” Buratai said.
The Chief of Air Staff, Sadiq Abubakar told newsmen that it was just a routine meeting. He too came to brief the President on what was happening in the Air Force. He also said the Air Force was working to create an enabling environment that will foster development in the country.
“For us in the Air Force and for all the service really, we are doing everything humanly possible to ensure that our society are secure and our communities are stable, so that people can go about pursuing their legitimate aspirations without any fear, that is the purpose for which the Air Force is established.
“That is why we are working to ensure that we do everything humanly possible to create such an enabling environment because without security you cannot think of development, you are very familiar with that the relationship between security and development and we are working round the clock to ensure that we provide the enabling environment for development,” he said.
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