From Mika’il Tsoho, Dutse
The federal government of Nigeria has promised to do all it best to end insurgency activities bedeviling the North Western Nigeria by the end of this year.
This was announced by the minister of defense Alhaji Muhammad Badaru Abubakar while speaking to journalists over the weekend at Birnin Kudu local government area Jigawa State.
“The security had been improved and improving in northwest and north central parts regions (Zamfara, Sokoto, Niger, Katsina and Kaduna states as a result of the ongoing coordinated fight against bandits and banditery in the areas”.
The Minister, reiterated the determination of the federal government to ensure the eradication of all forms of insurgency in the country before the end of the year.
He described the ongoing public comments and opinion, from community leaders, civil society organizations, (CSOs) and to the residents of the areas affected by terrorism and banditry, everybody is saying banditry and terrorism had improved.
“Even with this positive turn of events, we’ll continue to on our current achievements and we’re doing our best to give our armed forces all the needed logistics support they require to contain the insurgency this year.”
Commenting on the sour diplomatic relationship between Nigeria and it’s Niger Republic, the minister downplayed the development saying both Nigeria and Niger were like brothers.
He said, “We’ve said it a number of times that we’re brothers and so we can’t do anything, matter how small that will hurt Niger Republic. Because we believe that Nigeria and Niger are one and the same, so anybody that is plotting to incite Nigeria and Niger will not succeed.”
The minister admonished Nigerians to continue to provide the security agencies with the necessary and credible that could lead to routing of insurgents and their collaborators.
His words, “We need the public to support the security agencies by providing us with credible information on how to fight insecurity and give us real information on the identities and the whereabouts of the bandits, terrorists and those supporting them and they should desist from their activities
