Nigeria: Buhari, security chiefs to meet over terrorist surrender in Abuja

Nigeria: Buhari, security chiefs to meet over terrorist surrender in Abuja

President Muhammadu Buhari will be meeting with security chiefs at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Thursday.

Mr. Femi Adesina, the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, confirmed this in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday.

The President returned to Abuja last Friday after 18 days in London, where he went for a medical check-up during which he also attended an education summit.

Adesina noted that the Nation security forces had in the past few weeks taken the battle more robustly to insurgents, bandits, and all other criminals troubling the country.

”They are now surrendering in droves.

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”The President will be briefed on on developments at the Thursday meeting, while plans to bring a decisive end to the challenges will be formulated,” he said

Borno state governor, Babagana Zulum had on August 14 raised alarm over the security implication of the ongoing surrender of Boko Haram terrorists in the state.

He maintained that this development had presented the state with two extremely difficult situations requiring stakeholders’ serious examination of the wider implications.