The ability of terrorists to launch rockets is a worrying development, according to the IGP, but security operatives will continue to checkmate their advances as they have in the past.
The Police Chief made the statement while speaking with State House correspondents in Abuja on Friday, shortly after attending President Muhammadu Buhari’s emergency security meeting.
He said: “They are launching it in major towns, they are launching it in Maiduguri. It is a concern. And it has been seriously checkmated. There are efforts to continuously checkmate it.”
“Yes, they have done it, but to a large extent they have not achieved what they intended to achieve because of the situation the security agencies, particularly the military, put in place.”
Naija News recalls the terrorists attacked Maiduguri, capital of Borno State, ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to the state on Thursday.
The rocket attack was reported to have hit three communities at Ngomari airport general area in Maiduguri.
The terrorists appeared to have targeted the airport as they struck 10:45 am, a few minutes before the arrival of Buhari.
Reacting further to the incident, IGP Baba said that the security forces have identified and neutralized most of those responsible for the attack, adding that efforts are in place to ensure Nigerians have a peaceful Christmas and new year celebration.
The IGP assured that the security agents won’t rest on their oars until peace is restored in the country.
“Yes, it had been done before and even after. Some of those who must have planned and thrown those rockets have been taken out,” he said.
He added that security forces have marching orders “to ensure there is peace, law, and order during the yuletide period and beyond”.
“The marching orders are always the same. It has always been the same. There is no space, there is no tolerance to any threat to security,” he said.
“There is no sparing of any terrorists and there must be an intelligence gathering, there must be proactive prevention of crime and there must be checkmating of all those that are involved in criminal activities, whether it be terrorism, banditry or armed robbery or whatever and that is what we are trying to do to the best of our knowledge and ability.”
