Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has directed the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Yusuf Buratai, and Chief of Air staff, Sadique Abubakar, to relocate to Maiduguri, Borno state capital, with immediate effect.
The order is coming on the heels of the renewed attacks launched by members of Boko Haram in parts of Borno state.
The order came at an emergency meeting which the Acting President held with some service chiefs today, Thursday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Professor Osinbajo said that there is a need for them to be at the military command control centre in the hotbed of insurgency.
Apart from Buratai and Abubakar, those who attended the meeting were the minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali; Chief of Defence Staff, Gabriel Olonisakin and Chief of Naval Staff, Ekwe Ite-Ibas.
Speaking to news men at the end of the meeting, Dan-Ali said: “we just finished a meeting with the acting president and the three service chiefs. We agreed that they should move back to the command centre again and see what are the things happening there.
“We have also agreed that we should get more surveillance devices, cameras that will be able to see distant attackers coming to the position of our troops.
“Also, the period of the raining season is a difficult moment for us. We cannot dominate the environment like what we do during the dry season but efforts are geared towards regaining our areas. All these ambushes that are happening would be stopped.” [myad]
