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President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the immediate dismantling of all military checkpoints ‎in the country, ordering the Nigeria police to take charge of internal security henceforth The Daily Sun has revealed.

This was part of the decision reached at the end of the meeting he had with the Chief of Defence Staff, service chiefs and the Director of Military Intelligence.

Briefing State House correspondents at the end of the meeting, the Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Defence, Ismaila Aliyu said: “The President had instructed the Chief of Defence Staff to get the Chief of Army Staff and Inspector General of Police to remove all the military men along the road across the country.

‎”[We need] an alternative arrangement, that is why the Police are also there, that is where the police are coming in to take over the internal security”, he said.

Speaking on the kennel of the meeting, he said the service chiefs briefed on the movement of Military Commander Center to Maiduguri, adding that the briefing clearly showed that the days of Boko Haram’s operation in the country were numbered.

“The Nigerian Armed Forces are very ready, we have briefed him (The President). One interesting thing about it is that we are going out much happier because he has shown us that he is still a soldier, he has updated and enriched our strategic plans.

“Second item that was discussed is the movement of the command centre to the North-East. We have briefed him on how far we have reached on that and he has given us additional assignments, and very soon the centre will go up.

“I also want to assure Nigerians that we are very enthusiastic that the issue of Boko Haram will soon be over. He has given us hope that we will see peace and security in the very near future”.

On what will be done differently, the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Defence said: “Now we have come as a united front; we have Chad, Cameroon, Benin and Niger. We have all strategised and we are coming out with a single strategy to address Boko Haram”.

Source: http://www.irise.com.ng/buhari-orders-full-dismantling-of-all-military-checkpoint/

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Once a general alwys a general. Awua sir, my gallant soldier sai baba. Dats was wat d were surpose to do since, wats d police job, we need all dis soldier just sitting ideal on check point, engaging civilians any hw 2 move 2 war front nd distabalize boko haram. Even in American, police work within d cities nt soldier, soldier are meant 4 war. Baba did wat was right nd dats it. Person wey no like am fit go hug transformer.

Loss of revenue for the soldiers.