The Nigeria Police Force and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps would henceforth provide security in areas liberated from Boko haram insurgents by the armed forces.
A statement by PR-Nigeria, said the Defence minister, Mansur Dan Ali disclosed this yesterday when the management of Centre for Crisis Communication (CCC) visited him in his office in Abuja.
According to the statement the minister noted that the military was not expected to be saddled with the civil responsibility of keeping law and order in every liberated community while at the same time be engaged in the continuous mop operation across the length and breadth of the north east.
The minister was also said to have expressed concern over the increasing spate of herders-farmers clashes and kidnapping in some parts of the country and gave assurance that the government would continue to engage community leaders and traditional rulers to find common ground and lasting solutions to incessant crises.
Earlier in his remarks, the Executive Secretary of the Centre for Crisis Communication (CCC), Air Commodore retired Yusuf Anas had expressed the centre’s appreciation for the minister’s pragmatic approach in addressing not only the insurgency in the North East but in other parts of the country where the corporate interest of the nation is being threatened.
