President Buhari Presides over National Security Council meeting.
The issue of insecurity in the state is an alarming one. Alot of kidnapping and chaos is currently ongoing in country which is not really safe for the citizens. Due to the turbulent activities going on in the country currently. The President, His excellency President Muhammadu Buhari called for an emergency meeting to deliberate on the issue of insecurity in the country.
The meeting, started at 10 am. It toke place at the Conference Hall of the Office of the First Lady. The attendees were the Vice President, His excellency Yemi Osinbajo, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, Chief of Staff to the President, Professor Ibrahim Gambari; Boss Mustapha; Ministers of Defence, Major-General Bashir Magashi (retd), Foreign Affairs, Geoffery Onyema and the National Security Adviser, Major General Babagana Monguno (retd.), the Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor; Chief of Army Staff; Major General Farouk Yahaya; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Awwal Zubairu; Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Isiaka Amoo, Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, the Director-General, National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ahmed Rufa’i, the Director-General of the Department of State Services, Yusuf Bichi and other presidential aides.
They reviewed the current security developments occasioned by the activities of insurgents, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) bandits, kidnappers and all other issues of insecurity in the country.
The meeting was held at the State house, Abuja.