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The minister further stated that the National Assembly member who sponsored the bills had done nothing wrong. He said the legislator was only was elected to do.I insist that the bills were not sponsored by the Federal Government.

sweetshisha:
Mr Ipobian, do you know how much a billion dollar is or must you always lie.Well he is free to seek medical checkup at any part of the world and so are you

Bialegend:
You are daft and also dumb. When he threatened to go to war again and in reference to 1967-70, what does that tell you the reader? Can you refer to us today where Joe Igbokwe is talking about the marginalization of Igbo people? Was he not the same person that attacked Sen. Abaribe few days ago for wearing DOT Nation T-Shirt? Why did Sen. Abaribe wear the said T-Shirt? Honestly, you need a brain reset.

helinues:
Please you people should stop this nonsense.If all the allegations against Pantami are indeed true, we would all be dead by now.Nigerians like petty gossiping sha

Babagana Monguno, national security adviser (NSA), says Ahmad Gumi, Islamic cleric, has offered to help the government in tackling insecurity. 

Gumi who has been meeting with suspected bandits terrorising communities in the north-west and in the north-central had likened them to militants in the Niger-Delta, and asked that they are not tagged criminals. He had also called on the federal government to grant blanket amnesty to the bandits. 

At a state house briefing on Thursday, Monguno, while fielding questions from journalists, said he had met with Gumi, and that he is waiting to see how the cleric could help the government. 

“Sheik Gumi is doing what he’s doing because he believes in what he’s doing. He’s a Nigerian and under the constitution he can talk to anybody. He can deal with anybody,” he said.  

“I met with him when I went with the service chiefs to Kaduna, and we spoke generally during the meeting and he resolved to help government. We are waiting for him. That’s all I can say.”

The NSA said the government is not averse to holding talks with bandits, but that it cannot negotiate with people who are unreliable. 

“While government is not averse to talking with these entities, it also has to fully apply its weight. You can’t negotiate with people who are unreliable and who will continue to hurt society,” he said. We will apply the full weight of the government to deal with these criminals.

“These are not people looking for anything that is genuine or legitimate, they’re just out to take calculated measures to inflict pain and violence on innocent people. We must deal with them the way they need to be dealt with. We will fully assert the government’s will.” 

The NSA also said President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that mercenaries must not be engaged in fighting insecurity in the country.There have been calls by governors in the north-east for the federal government to engage mercenaries.But Monguno said Nigeria has all the resources needed to fight, but has been underutilised.

“When this administration came in, it’s true, we had these mercenaries helping out in the north-east. But the directive of the commander in chief is that we do not engage mercenaries when we have our own people to deal with this problem,” he said.

“This is basically a presidential directive. And there are so many issues when you come to the issue of mercenaries. It has to do with the issue of national pride also. I know you’d say can pride be more of a concern than our security? I do understand that.

“But what we are looking at here is that we have the resources, it’s just misapplication or underutilisation that has affected our ability to deal with these people.”

orisa37:
THE OBJECTIVES OF MACBAN AND BUHARI IS RIFA-RUGA ISLAMISATION FULANISATION AND ANARCHY IF NECESSARY, POLICY IN NIGERIA. AND THE DEMOCRATS IN THE US, IN ASSOCIATION WITH SAUDI ARABIA AND O.I.C FORMULATE THE POLICY FOR THE CALIPHATE AND BUHARI. THAT WAS WHY KERRY VISITED THE CALIPHATE TO SEE THE SULTAN INSTEAD OF ABUJA TO SEE JONATHAN.

Is there any help from other security agencies like the police, SSS and NSCDC?

...The DSS is just about information gathering. That is all they do. DSS only uses us to gather security reports; they are not helping us in any way. Any time we threatened to take action against the effrontery of the herders, we would be summoned by the DSS and their director would appeal to us and say they did not want war. ....

For soldiers, we don’t have much contact with them even though we there have been accusations that soldiers are good backers of the herders because we heard that top officers in the barracks own many of these cows