On Monday, retired generals outlined a plan for the new service chiefs to follow in order to address the security issues the nation is currently facing.
The previous military officers urged the security leaders to learn from their forerunners and strengthen their shortcomings in light of the insurgency in the North-East, banditry in the North-West, and other criminal activities and killings across the nation.
After meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, where he instructed them to collaborate with the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, and the acting Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to address insecurity, the ex-servicemen gave the security chiefs their advice.
The meeting on Monday was Tinubu’s first documented encounter with the security chiefs in person since On Monday, retired generals outlined a plan for the new service chiefs to follow in order to address the security issues the nation is currently facing.
The previous military officers urged the security leaders to learn from their forerunners and strengthen their shortcomings in light of the insurgency in the North-East, banditry in the North-West, and other criminal activities and killings across the nation.
After meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, where he instructed them to collaborate with the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, and the acting Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to address insecurity, the ex-servicemen gave the security chiefs their advice.
The meeting on Monday was Tinubu’s first documented encounter with the security chiefs in person since their appointment on June 19.
They are Maj. Gen. C.G. Musa, Chief of Defence Staff, Maj. Gen. T.A. Lagbaja, Chief of Army Staff, Rear Admiral E. A. Ogalla, Chief of Air Staff, AVM H.B. Abubakar, Maj. Gen. EPA Undiandeye, Chief of Defense Intelligence, and Kayode Egbetokun, Acting Inspector-General of Police.
Given the size of the task required of them, Tinubu gave them his unwavering support.
Tinubu advice
“He told us that we must work as a team and that there’s work to be done,” Ribadu told State House Correspondents after a closed-door meeting with the President and Service Chiefs.
Tinubu was restating a similar instruction he delivered to the recently-departed Service Chiefs on June 1, in which he said he would not tolerate their cooperating with opposing parties.
The NSA revealed what took place at the meeting by saying, “He (Tinubu) gave us the confidence that he’s with us 100%.
“He told us that we must work as a team and that there’s work to be done, he’ll expect us to deliver and we’re grateful for the opportunity. That’s why we are here.”
According to Ribadu, episodes of insecurity have declined nationwide in the past few weeks and would remain so as the security chiefs get to work.
“You can see already things are improving in our country. If you see, the record of crimes and activities of criminals are going down. It will continue to go down. We’ll secure this place.
“Nigerians have seen the quality of the people that are given the opportunity, they are probably some of the best we have and they are not going to fail you; they’ll certainly deliver,” he said.
