President Muhammadu Buhari has charged the Nigerian Army to work towards defeating insurgency in Nigeria.
Buhari gave the order on Monday at the opening of the chief of army staff (COAS) conference 2021.
The president, who was represented by Lucky Irabor, chief of defence staff said the war against terrorism and insurgency is intelligence driven, “requiring gathering of information and processing it into actionable intelligence for the conduct of operations”.
“It also needs cooperation and synergy of effort by all the security agencies,” Buhari said.
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“I therefore charge you to do more in your information gathering effort and the level of synergy among intelligence operations in order to comprehensively defeat all forms of insurgency and terrorism in our country within the shortest possible time.
“I am aware of the successes so far achieved in the north-east operations as well as all other operational theatres, following of course, the increase surrendering of some of the insurgents that we have witnessed in the past few months.
“You must therefore maintain the tempo to ensure that more of these insurgents continue to surrender until normalcy is fully restored in the region.”
