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Major Gen. Henry Ayoola (rtd), former Chief of Defence Research and Development has said that Nigeria’s Armed Forces need overwhelming power to triumph over the various security challenges facing the country, particularly Boko Haram in the Northeast.
Ayoola, a former Commander of the Operation Safe Haven in Nigeria’s north-central region, stated this during an interview on Channels Television’s Newsnight which aired on Monday.
He explained that with the combination of more personnel, arms and strategic training, several security threats such as banditry, terrorism, kidnapping, among others, can be effectively tackled.
Ayoola said, “What we need to win that war and win it in the shortest time is overwhelming force. When I say overwhelming force, it starts with the troops on the ground, the numbers.
A student of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State, identified as Pamela Ibrahim, has disclosed that some of the bandits who abducted them are foreigners.
Ibrahim said this while recounting her experience with the bandits, even as she mentioned that the bandits abducted them to get the government’s attention.
Speaking to newsmen in the state at the government house, Ibrahim said the bandits told them they would not stop threatening the peace of Kaduna State until the government settles them.
Ibrahim said, “Before they released us, the kidnappers told us that they did not have anything against the students.
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has insisted that the All Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari has dragged Nigeria 50 years backwards amid the state of security challenges in the country.
The Governor also alleged that the governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, was reaping from the evil he plotted against Rivers in the past.
Wike, in a statement by Kelvin Ebiri, his media aide, stated this on Friday when Obiageli Ejezie, the Vice President of the Rotary Club of Port Harcourt, led other leaders of the association to the Government House, Port Harcourt, to confer on him the 2019-20 Good Governance Award for his exceptional achievements in project execution in Rivers State.
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Dino Melaye, former Kogi West Senator, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to declare he is medically, physically and politically incapacitated to govern the country amid the state of security challenges in the country.
Melaye, who made this known on Friday during a programme (Focus) on AIT, also called on the National Assembly to impeach Buhari.
According to him, when Buhari is impeached, Nigerians can now organize the security architecture of this country.
He said, “The solution to this problem is simple, either the National Assembly become born again and impeach the President or the President agree that he is Medically, Physically, and Politically incapacitated and then hand in the towel.
The lawmaker representing Lagos Central District at the Senate, Remi Tinubu, on Tuesday, knocked Senator Smart Adeyemi (Kogi West) for speaking out on the spate of insecurity across the country.
Senator Adeyemi had aired his opinion on Nigeria’s security challenges while contributing to a debate at the floor of the Senate.
The Kogi West lawmaker called on the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to seek foreign help without further delays.
Recall that Niger State Governor, Sani Bello, on Monday, lamented that the Boko Haram are two-hours from Abuja, the nation’s capital and had hoisted its flag in the Shiroro Local Government Area of the State.