Osinbajo directs Buratai, Sadique Abubakar to relocate to Maiduguri

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has directed the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Gen Tukur Buratai and Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Sadique Abubakar and other military personnel to relocate to Maiduguri with immediate effect.

Osinbajo was said to have given the directive after an emergency meeting with the service chiefs. The Acting President had met behind closed doors with service chiefs over terrorists’ attacks in some parts of the country, especially in Borno State.

Several people have been reportedly killed in recent renewed attacks by remnants of Boko Haram sect in the North East. Osinbajo was also said to have ordered the movement of troops back to the command centre in order to check the onslaught of the terrorists.

Speaking with the State House correspondents at the end of the meeting, the Minister of Defence, Mansur DanAli, 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 is happening there. “We have also agreed that we should get more surveillance devices, cameras that would be able to see distant attackers coming to the position of our troops.

“So also the period of the raining season is a difficult moment for us. We cannot dominate the environment like we did during the dry season. But effort is geared towards regaining back our areas and we assure that all these ambushes that are happening regularly would be stopped.”