Babagana Monguno, national security adviser (NSA), says sponsors of criminality are working with persons in “critical agencies of government” to frustrate the efforts to secure the country.
Monguno spoke on Tuesday while briefing state house
correspondents after a meeting between the service chiefs and President
Muhammadu Buhari.
He said people who are engaging in “underhanded,
unscrupulous, mischievous and deceitful practices” will be identified and dealt
with.
“I’m also to send out a warning to those people who think
they can continue to behave in a manner that undermines national security,” he
said.
“Those people engaging in all kinds of underhanded,
unscrupulous, mischievous and deceitful practices, people who are working with
those that are in government, in particular, critical agencies of government.
“We have been able to identify certain areas that are weak
and these areas have to be strengthened so that these characters who are engaging
in acts that you can describe as outright acts of brigandage, people who are
behaving in a manner that portends a lot of danger to innocent lives, have to
be fished out.”
The national security adviser also warned that the sponsors
of criminality will be “brought down to their knees”.
“This is the directive from the President, I am to send a
warning to those people who think they’re in close proximity with those who
have the instruments to make the space easy for criminals, those people who
think they have some kind of authority, who are engaging in all kinds of hocus
pocus in all kinds of jiggery pokery or skullduggery, those people will be
brought down to their knees,” he said.
“It is extremely important for these people, I’m sending out
a message to them, anybody who thinks he can continue to pool whatever
resources he has at his disposal, to frustrate the efforts of the central
government in bringing about peace and security will have himself to blame.
“The new service chiefs, as well as the intelligence
community, and the constabulary forces have been given clear directives by the
President to target those people who are the ones leading in creating chaos,
disunity, and disharmony.”
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