President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday
warned that his administration would no longer tolerate a situation
where security operatives are killed at will in any part of the country.
He
also vowed not to withdraw soldiers attached to the Joint Task Force
deployed in troubled parts of the country until normalcy returns to the
affected areas.
Jonathan spoke at a town hall
meeting in Maiduguri as he concluded his working visit to Borno State
which has remained in the centre of activities of members of the
fundamental Islamic sect, Boko Haram, that have been responsible for
bombing campaigns in the northern part of the country.
He
said, “I cannot preside over this country as a president and security
officers are killed. These people leave their families, stay on the road
and the bush so that we will sleep and I will not want to hear that one
of them is killed.
“So
nobody should make an analogy that one soldier killed. We have
admonished the soldiers not to kill innocent civilians but we will not
allow and I will not celebrate the death of one security officer
anywhere in this country whether it is in Bayelsa State, whether it is
in Niger Delta, whether it is in Anambra State, whether it is in the
South East, whether it is the South West, whether it is in North West,
whether it is in North Central, anywhere. We will not, and I repeat, we
will not accommodate it.”
Jonathan
took a swipe at some politicians in the state whom he accused of
playing to the gallery on the issue of insecurity in the state.
Naij.Com
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