KILLINGS: Buhari set to reorganise security architecture – Dogara

The House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, on Wednesday said that President Muhammadu Buhari has assured that he is going to reorganised the security architecture.

He said that the President plans to do that in order to address the ongoing wanton killings in many parts of the country, especially in the North-Central part.

Dogara, who along the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, had a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Wednesday morning made the disclosure when he spoke with State House correspondents after the meeting.

The development is coming on the heels of the massacre of over 100 persons including hapless women and children in Plateau State at the weekend by Fulani herdsmen.

The Speaker however did not give the details of the re-organisation of the security architecture.

He said, “The President has taken enough steps, these are security issues, they are not matters that you can discuss; but he has told us what he is doing, the re- organisation that he plans to put in place to ensure that this doesn’t happen.”

According to Dogara, the President also during the meeting briefed them of his firsthand experience during his visit to Plateau State on Tuesday and the measures he was putting in place to avoid a recurrence.

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“These are very sober moments for all of us. In a situation where people, in hundreds, continue to be killed, we can no longer tolerate this kind of situation as a government.

“Whatever it is, we must not lose the fight against violence because we can’t lose that fight and still keep our civilisation.

“If you go to the North East, you can see the level of devastation caused by Boko Haram. Everything resembling progress; from schools to hospitals to government institutions, everything has been pulled down. And we don’t want a replication of this all over the country,” the Speaker added.

 

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