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Akinwande Soji-Ojo
President Bola Tinubu is currently in a meeting with service chiefs and other heads of security agencies at the State House, Abuja.
The ongoing meeting is coming on the heels of renewed security breaches in some parts of the country, especially in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), where kidnappers have wrecked some heinous havoc in the last few days.
The service chiefs are the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Musa; Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt-General Taoreed Lagbaja; Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Hassan Abubakar, Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla, and Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, as well as head of some other security outfits.
The meeting also had in attendance the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu.
Although there has been no official briefing on the meeting, it is believed that President Tinubu and his security chiefs will be reviewing the recent security situation in parts of the country, proposing ways of taming rising free reign of criminals, including kidnappers and bandits.
The meeting is also coming a few hours after the Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike, and Inspector-General of Police, Egbetokun,convened separate security appraisal meetings over the horrors unleashed on residents of the seat of power by kidnappers, who have resorted to mindless killing and demands for heavy ransoms from victims.
Details later…