President Muhammadu Buhari led top military and political leaders as well as traditional rulers today, Wednesday, to stand up in honour of the gallant soldiers who lost their lives to rampaging Boko Haram insurgents at Malete, in Borno State last week.
The President led a one-minute silence in prayer for the fallen heroes shortly before he left Maiduri, where he had attended military function and visited the wounded soldiers in the hospital within the army barracks.
He gave assurances that the soldiers would be taken care of.
According to the Presidential spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, Buhari also visited the Shehu of Borno, Abubakar Ibn Umar Garbai El-Kanemi, in his palace where he expressed the determination of the government to secure the country.
The President, who sympathized with Nigerians who lost their loved ones in the Boko Haram attack, which he called: “setbacks in the fight against terrorists,” said “we have to remind ourselves where we were and where we are now and what happened in between.
“The people of Borno State know what we did in the last three years. The situation would have been worse.”
President Buhari said that he is determined to change the unemployment situation of youths in the country, adding: “jobs for the young persons, especially those who are 30 and below in Borno State and across the federation continue to engage our attention. We go to bed with it and wake up with it.”
In his remarks, the Shehu of Borno, who spoke on behalf of the State’s Council of Chiefs, thanked the President for bringing peace to the state, and asked for intensive security patrols across the territories to save people from attacks on farms.
