Insecurity: We’ll get our lives back, Ribadu assures

By Egena Sunday Ode

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu met with his newly appointed security chiefs on Monday at the Presidential Villa, and charged them to do everything possible to secure the country from terrorism and other criminal activities.
The meeting with the service chiefs which was the first since their appointments also afforded Tinubu an opportunity to reel out his expectations of where the country should be in terms of security.
The brief meeting which had in attendance the Chief of Defence Staff, Major-General C.G Musa; Chief of Army Staff, Major- General T. A Lagbaja; Chief of Air Staff, AVM H.B Abubakar; Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Emmanuel Ikechukwu Ogalla; and acting Inspector-General of Police, DIG Kayode Egbetokun.
Speaking with newsmen after the meeting, the National Security Adviser,, Nuhu Ribadu, said the meeting was to thank the president for giving them the opportunity to serve the country.
The former EFCC boss said they are poised to work tirelessly to gurantee the peace and stability of the country.
He said, “We’re here to thank Mr President for the opportunity he gave us to serve our country and to serve his own government. We also pledged our loyalty to him, Nigeria and Nigerians. We believe the choice he made is the right one, the correct one, and we know what he wants for this country. We’re going to work tirelessly to ensure that we accomplish that objective of securing our country, establishing peace, stability and let’s get our lives back.
“He gave us the assurance that he’s with us hundred percent. He told us that we must work as a team and that there’s work to be done, he’ll expect us to deliver and we’re grateful for the opportunity. That’s why we are here”.
Asked if he was aware of the big task ahead of him, he replied saying, “Yes and it is going to be done, insha Allah”.
Asked where would be the starting point? he responded: “Where we are today and you can see already things are improving in our country. If you see the record of crimes and activities of criminals are going down, it will continue to go down. We’ll secure this place. Nigerians have seen the quality of the people that are given opportunity, they are probably some of the best we have and they are not going to fail you, they’ll certainly deliver”.