By Charles Adingupu
In a bid to walk the talk, President Bola Tinubu on Thursday met with service chiefs at the State House in Abuja.
The meeting is the first since President Tinubu’s assumption of office on May 29, 2023 and it follows the President’s promise to make security a priority of his administration.
Those in attendance at the Asiwaju Tinubu’s first engagement with heads of the nation’s security and intelligence agencies include the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Farouk Yahaya; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Awwal Gambo; the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Isiaka Amao; and the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba.
Others are the Director-General of the Department of State Service(DSS), Yusuf Bichi; and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ahmed Rufai Abubakar.
It would be recalled that Tinubu, during his inaugural speech at the Eagle Square on Monday, pledged to prioritise security, amongst other pressing concerns.
He said, “We shall defend the nation from all forms of criminality that threatened the peace and stability of our country and our sub-region.”
“Security shall be the top priority of our administration because neither prosperity nor justice can prevail amidst insecurity and violence.
“To effectively tackle this menace, we shall reform both our security doctrine and its architecture.
“We shall invest more in our security personnel, and this means more than an increase in number. We shall provide, better training, equipment, pay, and firepower.”
