The nation's service chiefs will in a few days be working out the modalities for the relocation of Command Centre against Boko Haram to Maiduguri, Borno State, as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari in his inaugural speech on Friday.
The Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Usman Jibrin, disclosed this to journalists after the first meeting the service chiefs held with Buhari at the Defence House, Abuja on Tuesday.
"On the relocation of the command centre, we are the ones to go back and work on it. Soon, it will be carried out, it is a Presidential directive, it must be carried out, and we must do that as quickly as possible," he told the journalists, who wanted to know the details of the meeting held behind closed doors.
Usman said they used the opportunity of the meeting to give Buhari security briefing of the country.
He said they succeeded in providing the President insights into the security situation of the country.
He added that it was the desire of the service chiefs to maintain the tempo with a view to sustaining the successes so far recorded until the insurgents were completely subdued.
Usman, however, appealed to all Nigerians to continue to support the military and provide operatives with the needed intelligence.
The information, he said, should include suspicious movements around them.
"You know as we continue to put pressure on them in the Sambisa area, they will try to run away from there and then create further problems, using improvised explosives devices," he said.
Reminded that the terrorists were becoming more daring, he said,"Like I told you, we are sustaining the tempo and the successes we have recorded so far, we want to continue to maintain that and if there is any suggested solutions that require amendments or alteration of what we're doing, why not?
"Most especially, the more they give us the intelligence, the better."
Others, who attended the meeting, included the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh; Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Kenneth Minimah; Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu; and the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase.
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