•As Osinbajo clarifies that insurgents
targeting VIPs houses, not VP's house
The Head of Mission, Multinational
Joint Task Force (MNJTF) and Executive Secretary, Lake Chad Basin
Commission, Engineer Sanusi Abdullahi, yesterday, held talks with the
Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Major General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, on
ways to end the Boko Haram insurgency.
Meantime, The presidency has denied
saying that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo raised alarm that Boko haram
was targeting his house, saying that the statement was made in error.
Senior Special Assistant to the Vice
President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande in a statement to
correct the error said that the Vice President was meant to say that
the insurgents were now targeting the house of Very Important
Persons, VIPs.
The statement read in parts" A
press briefing note circulated today by the Secretariat of the
National Economic Council, NEC, contains a typo on the very last line
of the last paragraph.
That paragraph should read “The Vice
President also disclosed that security reports has it that scavengers
are now being prepared by insurgents to dump refuse laden with bombs
in the houses of VIPs.”
The last line erroneously says “in
the house of the Vice President.”
However, according to a statement by
the Acting Director Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman Engr.
Abdullahi assured that his commission would partner with the Nigerian
military on the strategies towards making Boko Haram terrorism a
thing of the past.
The Head of Mission who commended the
Nigerian Army’s efforts in the ongoing fight against the insurgency
in the North Eastern part of the country, reiterating the need for
the Nigerian Army in particular and the nation in general to fulfill
its obligations toward ending the insurgency.
He emphasized that the operations of
the Multinational Joint Task Force will be aimed at supporting the
Nigerian military to bring peace to the Sub-Region.
Responding, the COAS, Maj- Gen. Buratai
expressed appreciation for his support and cooperation during his
brief stay as Commander, Multinational Joint Task Force to the Head
of mission.
It will be recalled that before his
appointment as the Chief of Army Staff, General Buratai was the Force
Commander of the Multinational Joint Task Force where the Executive
Secretary was the Head of Mission.
Present during the visit were senior
officers of the Army Headquarters, Major General Mohammed Tasiu
Ibrahim, Chief of Army Standard and Evaluation, Major General Alani
Gafar Okunlola, Acting Chief of
Operations and Brigadier General Dahiru Abdulsami, Acting Director of
Operations.
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