The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Waidi Shuaibu, arrived in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, at about 11am on Saturday, following President Bola Tinubu’s directive to security agencies to rescue all abducted persons across the country.
The visit follows a security meeting presided over by Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, where he directed service chiefs and other security heads to intensify efforts to locate and rescue kidnapped victims.
The Minister of Defence, Christopher Musa, disclosed the presidential directive on October 15, saying the President also ordered security agencies to ensure that no terrorist or bandit camp remained anywhere in Nigeria.
“The directive from the President is: all of us must go all out to fish out and rescue all those that have been abducted, kidnapped, wherever they are,” Musa said.
He added that President Tinubu had directed security chiefs to ensure a safe environment for Nigerians to participate in the elections scheduled for January.