Nuhu Ribadu, the National Security Adviser (NSA), has claimed that the Monday sit-at-home order is no longer effective because important members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) have been apprehended and neutralized.
Ribadu reportedly revealed this at the All Progressives Congress (APC) national summit on Thursday while giving a presentation on the security accomplishments of the President Bola Tinubu administration.
Ribadu asserts that Tinubu’s administration inherited five major security crises throughout the nation: Niger Delta unrest, communal/herder-farmer conflicts in the north-central region, secessionist agitations by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Eastern Security Network (ESN) in the south-east, armed banditry in the north-west, and Boko Haram in the northeast.
Together, security agencies have been able to stop the widespread murders, kidnappings, and devastation committed by criminal elements around the nation, according to the NSA.
The NSA highlighted the successes, stating that more than 11,000 weapons had been collected and destroyed and that over 13,543 Boko Haram fighters had been neutralized in the previous two years.
Since the start of Tinubu’s administration, he said, attacks on security personnel have drastically decreased, and 124,408 Boko Haram fighters and their families have turned themselves in to the military.
“The fact that sit-at-home orders are losing their effectiveness is a positive development in the southeast,” he said.
“Key IPOB/ESN figures were either neutralized or captured. Numerous police posts and more than 50 police stations have been restored.
“Security force attacks have drastically decreased.” Economic and social activity is becoming more commonplace.
11,250 hostages were liberated in the northwest, a turning point in the war against banditry; mass kidnappings have decreased.
“Severe blows to powerful warlords… They removed Ali Kachalla, Boderi, Halilu Sububu, Dangote, Isuhu Yellow, Damuna, and others.
