{"id":11025,"date":"2018-07-29T23:35:47","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T23:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=11025"},"modified":"2018-07-29T23:35:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T23:35:47","slug":"buhari-approves-1000-strong-military-force-for-zamfara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=11025","title":{"rendered":"Buhari approves 1000-strong military force for Zamfara"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Garba Shehu<\/strong>, Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media & Publicity).
\nThe Federal Government has assembled 1000-strong military force, comprising the army, air force, police and the civil defence to launch fierce attacks on the bandits terrorising the villages and towns of Zamfara State.
\nFollowing directives by President Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has begun the deployment of fighter aircraft to Katsina, the airport with the closest proximity to Zamfara State to make for immediate and effective response to the menace of the bandits.
\nThis had not been possible in the past because there was no fuel depot facility in Katsina, but NAF has devised a way around the problem.
\nThe President has also authorised the engagement by NAF, of advanced satellite surveillance technology to help in accurate detection of movement and locations of the bandits.
\nThe government had to go to this extent because of the limitations of conventional surveillance, as the use of satellite technology could make the task of NAF less\u00a0 problematic.
\nFollowing directives from the President, at the weekend, the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Sadiq Abubakar, was in Gusau where he met the Deputy Governor of the State.
\nThe Chief of Air Staff reiterated the President\u2019s pledge that he would never abandon victims of attacks to their fate, reaffirming that security remains one of the cardinal pillars of his campaign promises and no leader would be happy to see his own citizens killed by criminal groups across the country.
\nIt will be recalled that since his election, the President has kept faith with his promises to re-equip and motivate the country’s military and other security services.
\nThe army and other security services are now better equipped and motivated to face the challenges of their responsibilities.
\nThe Presidency, therefore, appeals to all Nigerians\u00a0to unite and speak with one voice on security issues and urges\u00a0politicians to stop exploiting national security challenges.
\nThose praying for the President to fail in this effort can be likened to one stabbing oneself in the heart and celebrating about it.
\nIn this regard, security should not be reduced to petty politics as doing so could only embolden the terrorists and other murderous gangs.
\nWe therefore appeal to members of the Nigerian media to avoid unhelpful and deleterious sensationalism in the coverage of events that border on national security.
\nThe media should under no circumstances make the bandits or terrorists feel like super stars because doing so could hurt all of us.
\nTerrorists seek to achieve maximum publicity and they do so by launching large scale attacks on soft targets and the media must resist every attempt to play into their hands unwittingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media & Publicity). The Federal Government has assembled 1000-strong military force, comprising the army, air force, police and the civil defence to launch fierce attacks on the bandits terrorising the villages and towns of Zamfara State. Following directives by President Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian Air Force […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}