BREAKING NEWS:Buhari orders removal of military checkpoints across the country

News reaching firstclass newsline says that president Muhammadu Buhari
on Monday ordered the removal of all military checkpoints set up in
the wake of Boko Haram activities across the country.
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence, Aliyu Ismaila, disclosed
this to State House correspondents after a meeting Buhari had with
service chiefs at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
"The President had instructed the Chief of Defence Staff to get the
Chief of Army Staff and Inspector-General of Police to remove all the
military men along the roads across the country," he said.Ismaila said
the meeting had further encouraged the security chiefs to do more in
the war against insurgency because of the leadership being provided by
the President who is a retired military officer.
He said the service chiefs left the meeting happier because the
President updated and enriched their strategic plans.
He added that the meeting also discussed the movement of the command
centre to the North-East.
He said they briefed the President on how far they had gone and they
were given some additional assignments.
He however assured Nigerians that the centre would soon take off.
"I also want to assure Nigerians that with what we have come out with
from this meeting, we are very enthusiastic that the issue of Boko
Haram will soon be over.
" He has given us hope that we will see peace and security in the very
near future," he added.
Ismaila said he was sure there would be a difference in the insurgency
war with the common front that has been formed by Nigeria, Chad,
Cameroon, Benin and Niger.
"We have all strategised and we are coming out with one type of
strategy that we are going to address the Boko Haram with, unlike
before," he added.
He said the issue of sacking of service chiefs did not come up during
the meeting.
On the absence of heads of some security agencies at the meeting,
Ismaila said, "This is not a national security meeting, this is a
briefing by the Ministry of Defence on the operationalisation of the
Multi-National Joint Task Force and the relocation of the command
control centre to the North-East, so it is something restricted to the
ministry of Defence."
Motorists had been facing harrowing experience on the Abuja-Keffi Road
and some other roads following the military checkpoints mounted at
strategic spots.
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