Insecurity: NSA meets service chiefs, northern governors behind closed doors

According to reports, the national security adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, service chiefs led by the chief of defence staff, Gen. Christopher Musa, and some governors of northern states held a closed-door meeting last night to discuss the increasing insecurity in the country. Although the agenda of the meeting was not officially disclosed, it was reliably gathered that the discussion centred on strategic plans on how to rescue the internally displaced persons, schoolchildren and Tsangaya students recently abducted by terrorists in Borno, Kaduna and Sokoto states respectively. Speaking after the meeting, Chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum, Governor Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe State, said the meeting was convened to discuss and review strategies towards tackling cases of insecurity in the North. The governor added that the need for a collaborative approach to tackling insecurity in the region necessitated the meeting, stressing the need for non-kinetic and kinetic approaches to address the remote causes of insecurity. Yahaya noted that the security agencies were doing their best, but there was the need for non-kinetic approach to address the root causes of the problem.