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I don’t know why Buhari couldn’t flush out those terrorists – Adeboye
Enoch Adeboye, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), claims he is at sea on why former President, Muhammadu Buhari could not cure Nigeria of the current state of insecurity by flushing out the terrorists rampaging across the land.
Heavily attacked in recent weeks for his silence over the parlous situation, including his alleged intervention to stop members of the church from staging a protest, the cleric gave details of his past efforts in this regard.
He particularly recalled how he had met with the former President to pressure him to deal decisively with the situation, which led to the riot act Buhari read to Service Chiefs to wipe out the gunmen engaging in various acts of violence across the land, but was surprised that despite the order, the menace persisted and outlived him.
In his account, which was posted on different social media platforms, Adeboye, maintained that he preferred to engage with the government quietly to offer his advice on the way out.
Hear him: “You can only advise the Commander-in-Chief. You can’t command him. Because if you command the Commander-in-Chief, then you become the Commander of the Commander-in-Chief. That doesn’t make sense.
“But I’ve tried. And God is my witness. What should we do now. If I were asked to make suggestions, I would say quietly to our government, move fast. And tell our security chiefs, get rid of these terrorists within 90 days, or resign.
“Now, that I’m sure will sound familiar to those of you who have been following situations in Nigeria. There was a President – unfortunately, he’s dead now – that’s Buhari, who issued such an order – some of you will remember – who called the service chiefs together and said I give you three months – get rid of these Boko Haram people or resign.
“He’s not around to tell you who gave him that advice. He ran with that advice, but he didn’t follow it through. Because he gave the order as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. But the security operatives moved fast. The three months went, and the work was not done.
“So, I went to see him. It was in the news. Somehow the press got to know that I visited him. Unfortunately, as I said, he’s not alive now or else I would have asked you to go and ask him, Sir, why didn’t you follow through. Because when three months passed and the work wasn’t done, why didn’t you proceed with your threat?
“I won’t tell you the details. But one thing came out of that meeting, which will lead me to my next advice to our government.
“In case that any of you could get across to them, when giving orders to the Service Chiefs this time around, they should make it clear to them – that they are not only to eliminate the terrorists, they should eliminate their sponsors no matter how influential they may be.”
The echoes of the drums rolled out to celebrate the rescue of the 44 teachers and students, kidnapped from some schools in Oyo State, after 56 days in the bush, would surely be disrupted abruptly, with the divergent echoes of a fresh abduction, this time coming from Kogi State.
Reports indicate that the gunmen, struck on Tuesday at the Government Secondary School, Odo-Ekina, in Dekina Local Government Area of the state, abducting four students, the school principal and a National Examinations Council (NECO) ad hoc staff member.
Authorities of the Kogi State Police Command, who immediately unleashed their operatives in hot pursuit of the abductors, said the attack occurred at about 5:25 p.m. while the students were writing their NECO examination.
Saliu Oyiza Afusat, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) and spokesman of the command, said a combined team of police personnel and other security agencies has launched a search-and-rescue operation following the incident.
Informing that one of the students was actually rescued immediately, she said efforts were ongoing to secure the release of the remaining victims and apprehend the attackers, adding that Naziru Bello Kankarofi, the state Commissioner of Police, alongside the Brigade Commander and the State Security Adviser to the Governor, Commodore Jerry Omodara (Rtd), were already on the way to the scene for an on-the-spot assessment.
Oil prices are expected to go down now with the announcement of Donald Trump, US President that he will no longer impose a 20 percent “safe passage” fee on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
The POTUS, hinged his reversal of the decision on the intervention from some Gulf countries, who pleaded with him not to toe the line due to the massive economic impact the decision would make on the region.
Indeed, oil prices had shot up immediately Trump announced the new levy on Monday while declaring the US ‘the guardians of the Hormuz strait,’ a measure which he said was to pay for the cost of guarding the volatile area in order keep supply of oil flowing.
Reports said that Gulf allies of the US worked frantically to get Trump on the phone in time to talk him out of the idea altogether, while a flurry of appeals came from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Qatar.
In response, the POTUS, posting on his Truth Social platform, wrote: “Based on highly productive conversations with Middle East leadership, I have decided to replace the 20% United States Reimbursement Fee with Trade and Investment Deals that the various Gulf States will be making into the United States.”
Trump, who said the investments would be “MASSIVE but, at the same time, extraordinarily good for them, and their future,” added that the deals would see factories, plants, and equipment pour into the US at “Historic levels.”
The Gulf nations have committed to invest trillions of dollars in the US, though it remains unclear how much of that they will actually spend over the next several years.
Meanwhile, the US continues to bomb Iran in what appears to be a resumption of active conflict between both countries, despite an ongoing roadmap to end the conflict.
Reports say operatives of the Osun State Police Command, and those of the Department of State Services (DSS) had tracking the trail of Adeniyi Adeyemi, controversial Director General of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), for weeks, before he was eventually pulled out of his hole on Tuesday.
However, the duo, were said to have pulled back after failing to track him through his mobile phones, which he had reportedly switched off for about two days, making it difficult to locate him, leaving the stage for the members of the Police Intelligence Response Team (PI-RT) led by Moses Lohor, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP).
Lohor, said to have previously served as the Commander of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad of Osun State, and reported to have been involved in high-profile security operations and controversies, after taken over fielded his men to pick up signals from their well-oiled signal networks.
Regarded by many Osun residents as one of the key security officers who contributed significantly to the peace and stability enjoyed in Ilesa and other parts of the state during his tenure, he was said to have relied on his contacts before his transfer out of the state, said to have raised concerns from the public about the security situation he would be leaving behind.
His exit from the state was said to be hinged on an incident in 2024, in which he allegedly shot one Iyanda Alowonle, then Chairman of Osun State Motor Transport System, in the stomach at the police station in the state prompting an order for his arrest by then Inspector General of Police (IGP).
His effort was said to have paid off when he successfully tracked down the controversial PFIPC, boss, who was seen on Tuesday evening, in a shot video on social media undergoing interrogation, and eventually handed him over to Ibrahim Gotan, Commissioner of Police in the state.
The PUNCH quoted one of the sources as saying: “The arrest (of Adeyemi) took place on Tuesday morning by the IRT squad, who immediately moved him to Abuja. After he was arrested, he was taken to Ibadan and from there to Abuja.”
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