COMBATING INSECURITY IN THE COUNTRY: LEST WE FORGET – PRESIDENCY

A popular refrain from some quarters is that the President is not doing enough to combat the insecurity that has beleaguered the country in recent times.

Lest that untruth begins to wear a garb of reality, let us consider some initiatives taken under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari to rein in the security situation, particularly since January, 2018.

JANUARY 2018
Ø Leadership of the police deployed to Benue State, after mass killings reportedly committed by herdsmen. This was followed by a fact-finding team led by the Minister of Interior, and deployment of Special Forces of the military, to restore law and order.

Ø National Economic Council sets up 10-man committee on farmers/herdsmen clashes, headed by the Vice President.

Ø The 1 Division of the Nigerian Army, Kaduna, launched a special operation, Karamin Goro (Small Kolanut), in collaboration with the Air Force, Police, Department of State Services, and Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC; to tackle kidnapping, robbery and cattle rustling in parts of Kaduna and Niger States (Minna-Birnin Gwari-Pandogari and Minna-Sarkin Pawa general areas)

FEBRUARY 2018
Ø The Nigerian Army commenced Exercise Ayem Akpatuma covering Benue, Taraba, Kogi, Nasarawa, Kaduna and Niger States, in order to tackle the cases of kidnappings, herdsmen/farmers’ clashes, among others.

Ø The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) inducted its first indigenous operational Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), Tsaigumi. The newly-inducted UAV has day and night capability, an operational endurance in excess of 10 hours, a service ceiling of 15,000 feet and a mission radius of 100km, and is capable of being used for policing operations, disaster management, convoy protection, maritime patrol, pipeline, power line monitoring as well as mapping and border patrol duties.

Ø The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) established a total of 10 new Units as NAF had concluded plans to set up Quick Response Wings (QRWs) across Nasarawa State, in a bid to tackle the herders/farmers clashes plaguing some states within the axis.

MARCH 2018
Ø President Buhari began sympathy visits to states that had experienced wanton killings in the country.

Ø The Nigerian Army extended Exercise Ayem Akpatuma in Taraba State by two months.

Ø The committee set up by the National Economic Council on farmers/herdsmen clashes submits report, making far reaching recommendations for peace, including ranching in five states.

APRIL 2018
Ø The Nigerian Air Force took delivery of a second batch of 2 brand new Mi-35N helicopter gunships to boost internal security.

Ø Deployed Special Force to Zamfara State to combat criminality

MAY 2018
Ø The Nigerian Police Force inaugurated a Mobile Squadron in Takum, Taraba State.

Ø The Nigerian Air Force established 3 new Quick Response Wings (QRW) in Taraba, Nasarawa and Benue States respectively, and deployed Special Forces personnel to these new bases. (Taraba State QRW is located in Nguroje; Nasarawa State QRW in Doma; and Benue State QRW in Agatu).

Ø Inspector-General of Police Ibrahim Idris ordered the deployment of 200 policemen, and 10 patrol vehicles to Birnin Gwari (Kaduna-Zamfara axis) to tackle armed banditry in the area.

Ø President Buhari approved the establishment of a new Battalion of the Nigerian Army, as well as a new Police Area Command, in Birnin Gwari LGA of Kaduna State, as part of measures to scale up the security response to the banditry affecting the area. Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen. Tukur Buratai, has since flagged off the new Battalion (2 Battalion Forward Operating Base, FOB) in Kanfanin Doka Village, Birnin-Gwari, Kaduna State.

Ø The Defence Headquarters assembled a Special Military Intervention Force comprising more than 1,000 personnel, drawn from the Army, Air Force, Navy, Police, DSS and NSCDC, to respond to the security challenges in the North Central and North West. On May 8, 2018, the Force launched Operation WHIRL STROKE, as a full-scale military operation to completely restore law, order and stability in the affected communities. The Whirl Stroke Operational Force Commander is Major General Adeyemi Yekini.

Ø Chief of Army Staff inducted a mix of 49 Toyota Land Cruisers and Innoson gun trucks, at the HQ of the 133 Special Forces Battalion of the Nigerian Army at Azare, to support the ongoing OPERATION LAST HOLD in Northern Borno.

Ø NAF launched newly-constructed accommodation for the 205 Combat Search and Rescue Group (CSARG) — established in 2017 to provide aid and operational assistance to wounded and distressed troops serving in combat units — in Kerang, Plateau State.

Ø The Air Task Force of NAF commenced Operation THUNDER STRIKE to attack selected locations of Boko Haram Terrorists in the North-East.

Ø The Nigerian Army commissioned its new Forward Operating Base in Epe, Lagos State

JUNE 2018
Ø NAF deployed combat helicopter to its 207 Quick Response Group (QRG) in Gusau, Zamfara State to support the fight against armed banditry in the town and its environs.

JULY 2018
Ø President Buhari approved the establishment of Operation WHIRL STROKE II, for deployment in Zamfara and Kaduna States.

Securing the length and breadth of the country is a continuing commitment. It is one of the key pledges of the Buhari administration, which it is carrying out night and day.

In May 2015, when the administration emerged, the security situation was in tatters. It pulled up its bootstraps, rolled up its sleeves, set to work, and the Boko Haram insurgency was beaten back. It was eventually degraded.

Other security challenges are being tackled and will subsequently become history. Not doing enough, as some critics claim, is not part of the deal, nor is it reality, no, not by any stretch of the imagination. A lot is being done, and success is guaranteed.

FEMI ADESINA
Special Adviser to the President
(Media and Publicity)
July 16, 2018

The Insecurity in the Land is Giving butt to many Children!!

Hakika made of Fulani looking men is the latest group of Terrorist in Nigeria...

I watched a video showing them beheading Human heads like it was toy!

If u are Privileged to go out and Come back alive in Nigeria.... pls kneel down and say THANK YOU TO GOD....

We feel unsecured under your system
Therefore, with our PVC, we shall combat you back to Daura2019.


Btw
I need financial help. Helper please quote me

Garbage

MARCH 2018
Ø President Buhari began sympathy visits to states that had experienced wanton killings in the country.

Ngwanu lookat this epic display of gigantic stvpidity coming from one retard of a man!!!!

Angel Michael abeg drop ojoro bat, lerrus restart this world again!! I'm tired of naijeria

God help us

Who is the presidency.

We've forgotten already


Pls do new things.



The only thing we can't forget is.....


The presidency through levity has killed many dreams.

cock and bull story

government of deceit.well d BMC crew living on 30k per month will take them serious

Buhari is the greatest insecurity in Nigeria today as he is complicit in any anti social pattern that leads to insecurity from disrespect for the rule of law to religious intolerance to tribal intolerance to nepotism to poor economic decisions to human right abuse just name to name a few ...All have Buharis inaction or action as a complicit factor.. If Buhari changes then security will improve I believe

Bros buhari, what we need is results not stories. If the security chiefs are not delivering results on ground, why not sack them and get new people at least this will show them you are serious.

From Femi Adesina / Presidency The stupidity emanating from that axis is extraordinarily everyday like Zee-World.

Yawns.....next.

All what i read was just nonsense.we need solutions not highlights

So how has all this operations prevented the killings going on in the country

Beware of Terrorist Leader

Buhari and his army are not interested in ending the killing but the top on their list is to open cattle caliphates in the Southern part of Nigeria. He has push this madman agenda to the extent he told the people to submit their land or die, What a terrorist attitude. Buhari must GOOO

The same Buhari open fire on ipob members and Shia Muslims but embrace the people from Libya.

Fellow Nigerians Beware of terrorist leader

These people are just too clueless for my liking. Is this what we expect from them or PMB should fire all the stupid security chiefs and replace them with serious ones.

Buhari is a terrorist

Good one from the presidency.

Nigerians are not just sincere. There so much collusion to frustrate the federal government effort just because a lot of big fishes have been openly alleged 'criminals', and they fight back to take us back to the crude old ways.

All of them want to protect their own interests not the masses'. But reason will prevail and faithful Nigerians.

Buhari till 2023.

God bless the federal republic of Nigeria
God bless Nigerians

Peace!

And yet deployed 30k policemen for elections in Ekiti while terrorists ran amok

And killings have continued with the clueless president telling Nigerians being killed daily that "the only option left now is to pray" & "my service chiefs are racking their brains"?

And here they are again with their gale of propaganda
This shit does not make any sense to families that have lost relatives.Never seen an irresponsible government

Rubbish...we meant to see what you're doing AREN'T WE?

We will over come, time is everything. Time

What ever you are doing is not working

If this is best you guys can offer?

Then pack your load and go
Bunch of ineffectual idiot's

Useless Presidency

Excuses and dirty stories that do not add up.
Those killing were alleged to be Muslims while those bn killed were majorly Christians while deploying Muslims to such place to gather security report. The result will still amount to nothing.

It’s like buhari is deaf and still on trance. Change ur security chiefs and apply federal character 100%,send Christian security chiefs from other tribes apart from the northerners to those places and see if u won’t get different people information.

The single reason the killings has continued is simply because of Buhari's silence and refusal to condemn the killings. I'm not referring to press releases from femi Adesina or Garba Shehu. I'm saying let Buhari verbally condemn by the Fulani herdsmen killings and read the riot acts to the killers and let's see whether the security chiefs will not sit up and act decisively with those killers.

@July 2018... FG deployed over 30,000 joint security force to Ekiti to launch Operation ....

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COMBATING INSECURITY IN THE COUNTRY: LEST WE FORGET – PRESIDENCY

A popular refrain from some quarters is that the President is not doing enough to combat the insecurity that has beleaguered the country in recent times.

Lest that untruth begins to wear a garb of reality, let us consider some initiatives taken under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari to rein in the security situation, particularly since January, 2018.

JANUARY 2018
Ø Leadership of the police deployed to Benue State, after mass killings reportedly committed by herdsmen. This was followed by a fact-finding team led by the Minister of Interior, and deployment of Special Forces of the military, to restore law and order.

Ø National Economic Council sets up 10-man committee on farmers/herdsmen clashes, headed by the Vice President.

Ø The 1 Division of the Nigerian Army, Kaduna, launched a special operation, Karamin Goro (Small Kolanut), in collaboration with the Air Force, Police, Department of State Services, and Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC; to tackle kidnapping, robbery and cattle rustling in parts of Kaduna and Niger States (Minna-Birnin Gwari-Pandogari and Minna-Sarkin Pawa general areas)

FEBRUARY 2018
Ø The Nigerian Army commenced Exercise Ayem Akpatuma covering Benue, Taraba, Kogi, Nasarawa, Kaduna and Niger States, in order to tackle the cases of kidnappings, herdsmen/farmers’ clashes, among others.

Ø The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) inducted its first indigenous operational Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), Tsaigumi. The newly-inducted UAV has day and night capability, an operational endurance in excess of 10 hours, a service ceiling of 15,000 feet and a mission radius of 100km, and is capable of being used for policing operations, disaster management, convoy protection, maritime patrol, pipeline, power line monitoring as well as mapping and border patrol duties.

Ø The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) established a total of 10 new Units as NAF had concluded plans to set up Quick Response Wings (QRWs) across Nasarawa State, in a bid to tackle the herders/farmers clashes plaguing some states within the axis.

MARCH 2018
Ø President Buhari began sympathy visits to states that had experienced wanton killings in the country.

Ø The Nigerian Army extended Exercise Ayem Akpatuma in Taraba State by two months.

Ø The committee set up by the National Economic Council on farmers/herdsmen clashes submits report, making far reaching recommendations for peace, including ranching in five states.

APRIL 2018
Ø The Nigerian Air Force took delivery of a second batch of 2 brand new Mi-35N helicopter gunships to boost internal security.

Ø Deployed Special Force to Zamfara State to combat criminality

MAY 2018
Ø The Nigerian Police Force inaugurated a Mobile Squadron in Takum, Taraba State.

Ø The Nigerian Air Force established 3 new Quick Response Wings (QRW) in Taraba, Nasarawa and Benue States respectively, and deployed Special Forces personnel to these new bases. (Taraba State QRW is located in Nguroje; Nasarawa State QRW in Doma; and Benue State QRW in Agatu).

Ø Inspector-General of Police Ibrahim Idris ordered the deployment of 200 policemen, and 10 patrol vehicles to Birnin Gwari (Kaduna-Zamfara axis) to tackle armed banditry in the area.

Ø President Buhari approved the establishment of a new Battalion of the Nigerian Army, as well as a new Police Area Command, in Birnin Gwari LGA of Kaduna State, as part of measures to scale up the security response to the banditry affecting the area. Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen. Tukur Buratai, has since flagged off the new Battalion (2 Battalion Forward Operating Base, FOB) in Kanfanin Doka Village, Birnin-Gwari, Kaduna State.

Ø The Defence Headquarters assembled a Special Military Intervention Force comprising more than 1,000 personnel, drawn from the Army, Air Force, Navy, Police, DSS and NSCDC, to respond to the security challenges in the North Central and North West. On May 8, 2018, the Force launched Operation WHIRL STROKE, as a full-scale military operation to completely restore law, order and stability in the affected communities. The Whirl Stroke Operational Force Commander is Major General Adeyemi Yekini.

Ø Chief of Army Staff inducted a mix of 49 Toyota Land Cruisers and Innoson gun trucks, at the HQ of the 133 Special Forces Battalion of the Nigerian Army at Azare, to support the ongoing OPERATION LAST HOLD in Northern Borno.

Ø NAF launched newly-constructed accommodation for the 205 Combat Search and Rescue Group (CSARG) — established in 2017 to provide aid and operational assistance to wounded and distressed troops serving in combat units — in Kerang, Plateau State.

Ø The Air Task Force of NAF commenced Operation THUNDER STRIKE to attack selected locations of Boko Haram Terrorists in the North-East.

Ø The Nigerian Army commissioned its new Forward Operating Base in Epe, Lagos State

JUNE 2018
Ø NAF deployed combat helicopter to its 207 Quick Response Group (QRG) in Gusau, Zamfara State to support the fight against armed banditry in the town and its environs.

JULY 2018
Ø President Buhari approved the establishment of Operation WHIRL STROKE II, for deployment in Zamfara and Kaduna States.

Securing the length and breadth of the country is a continuing commitment. It is one of the key pledges of the Buhari administration, which it is carrying out night and day.

In May 2015, when the administration emerged, the security situation was in tatters. It pulled up its bootstraps, rolled up its sleeves, set to work, and the Boko Haram insurgency was beaten back. It was eventually degraded.

Other security challenges are being tackled and will subsequently become history. Not doing enough, as some critics claim, is not part of the deal, nor is it reality, no, not by any stretch of the imagination. A lot is being done, and success is guaranteed.

FEMI ADESINA
Special Adviser to the President
(Media and Publicity)
July 16, 2018

Can somebody ask Femi how terrorist Fulani herdsmen have been apprehended and prosecuted?