The acting president, Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday held a closed door meeting with service chiefs over resurgence of terrorists’ attacks in the North East, ordering the chief of army staff, Tukur Buratai, to relocate to Maiduguri.
Briefing journalists at the end of the meeting, the minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, said the acting president had directed that the command centre be moved back to the troubled region.
“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.
“The period of the rainy 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,” Mr Dan-Ali added.
