President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday described the current security situation in the country as unpredictable. and charged the security agents to hunt down the criminal bandits and kidnappers. He stated this while reacting to recent security development in some parts of the country.
In a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President ordered the security agencies to be on the alert, which partly reads:
“In view of the unpredictability of the security situation, our security forces and the communities affected should be ever more alert because these murderous and remorseless criminals would take advantage of your complacency and strike again.
“The bandits should under no circumstances be allowed to hold the country to ransom on account of security loopholes which they seek to exploit to strike at their victims. The criminals always look for loopholes in our security system in order to remain in business and active, but we shouldn’t give them the space to achieve this diabolical objective by pre-empting them. Complacency is a hidden or unnoticed enemy that we shouldn’t take for granted because doing so could weaken our strategies.” He noted.
He said, “the bandits maintain networks of informants among the communities they attack, by identifying and reporting these informants to the authorities, it would be by far easier to foil the bandits before they reach their intended targets.”