The Federal Government has assured Nigerians that peace and security will be returned to the nation. Even though agreeing to the fact that the country has faced the greatest security challenge since the civil war from 1967 to 1970.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, stated this on Monday in Abuja during a joint press conference while briefing newsmen the security situation of the nation.
He said, “As you are all aware, the issue of security has dominated ournational discourse in recent times, against the background of the terrorism, banditry and kidnapping in the North-East, North-West and North Central; separatist violence and crude oil theft in the South-East and South-South as well as cultism, armed robberry and sundry crimes in the South-West
Please don’t misunderstand or misrepresent this assertion. We may still witness isolated cases of security challenges here and there, but it will not be on the scale that we have witnessed in the past.” he said.
Others who jointly addressed the press conference were; the Ministers of Defence, Maj.-Gen. Bashir Magashi, rtd, Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, as well as Police Affairs, Alhaji Mohammed Dingyadi.
Mohammed said the security forces are winning the fight against insecurity and terrorism, adding that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari’s (retd.) regime would stop at nothing in securing lives and property of Nigerians.
According to him, never again will terrorists and bandits and their cohorts hold sway in our country.
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