President Muhammadu Buhari has approved new security measures specially targeted for the Southeast and South-south regions.
The Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, disclosed this after a security meeting held with the president in Abuja on Tuesday.
Baba, however, refused to disclose the new measures, saying a decision was reached at the meeting not to, henceforth, publicize measures to be deployed to tackle insecurity in the country.
However, The National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, who spoke alongside the IGP, said the meeting stressed the need to address the security challenges in the country particularly those that have arisen in the last few months.
He said, “ the government was also trying to tackle unemployment by bringing 100 million people out of poverty.
“These enablers are discussed in detail and Mr President has already given direction on how to deal with them, specifically issues of drug abuse as propellants for crime.
“How to make the criminal justice system much more effective, as well as looking at issues of unemployment, which of course, the federal executive council had given approval of, through previous memos on how to get 100 million people out of poverty, that was also discussed. Then, again, the lack of an effective crime reporting system.
“The president has given direction on how to effectively tackle crime by engaging with the NCC.
“Already, the NCC has been given certain instructions on how to deal with this, but by and by Council has agreed that the level of insecurity in the country, especially in the last one month, is something that has to be addressed with the immediacy that it requires and at the operational level.”