Insecurity: Tinubu in closed door meeting with security chiefs
By Emma Ogbuehi
As anxiety continues to mount over rising insecurity across the country, President Bola Tinubu has summoned security chiefs to a meeting.
TheNiche can report that an embattled Tinubu is presently meeting with service chiefs and other heads of security agencies at the State House, Abuja.
The extant meeting is coming on the heels of impudent exploits by criminals and terrorists which have led to embarrassing security breaches in some parts of the country.
In the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), most especially, kidnappers have wrecked heinous brutality in the last few days.
At the meeting are the Chief of Defense Staff, General Christopher Musa; Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Taoreed Lagbaja; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ogala; Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Hassan Abubakar; the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun; and head of some other security agencies.
Although there has been no official briefing on the meeting, it is believed that President Tinubu and his security chiefs will be reviewing the recent security situation in parts of the country, proposing ways of taming rising free reign of criminals, including kidnappers and bandits.
The meeting is also coming a few hours after the Minister of the FCT, Chief Nyesom Wike, convened his own security appraisal meeting over the horrors unleashed on residents of the seat of power by kidnappers, who have resorted to mindless killing and demands for heavy ransoms from victims.
Wike berated the area council chairmen for leaving their responsibilities when they are needed most, wondering why the council chairmen would be travelling out of the country even when their areas were facing challenges.
“This time around we will not be happy, where area council chairmen will leave their responsibilities and travel out. We have gotten reports that council chairmen travel anytime and then, if anything happens, they will not call anybody’s name except the FCT Minister.
“Recently, NUT embarked on strike and it is not our fault but that of the area councils. Primary schools are under the area councils but again, it will look as if the ministers are doing nothing but that is not our responsibility. However, we can’t fold our hands and we have invited them to this meeting to see how we can resolve the problem.
“So council chairmen should know that they must live up to their responsibilities. It is not everything that happens, they would say that it is the ministers that have not taken steps.”