By Doyin Ojosipe.
Yobe state governor, Ibrahim Gaidam yesterday advised the federal government to do the needful by providing better and sophisticated ammunitions to the Nigerian Army, to aid in the fight against terrorist attacks.
In a statement, issued yesterday, signed by the governor’s Special Adviser on Press Affairs and Information, Abdullah Bego, the governor faulted the one optional emergency rule, which has not yielded any better result, since its adoption.
The governor expressed sadness that it is amidst this option that young Nigerian students who had chosen to get educated, were massacred in cold blood by the terrorist sect, while Government has yet insisted on continue use of the emergency rule without making avenues for better options.
“The on-going emergency rule has, so far, failed to roll back and contain the disaster that is Boko Haram. Only ten days ago, our very young students full of hope for the future at Government Science Technical College (GSTC) Potiskum were killed in a very evil and grotesque manner. And there were many others before them in four schools across our State and in communities across the affected states’, Gaidam stated.
According to him, it is paramount to include the local vigilantes in training against terrorist attacks, as that is one vibrant way to help protect lives and properties of the Nigeria citizens.
