The senator representing Borno South, Senator Ali Ndume, has applauded President Bola Tinubu’s latest security interventions, including improved kitting and salary for troops, saying the measures rolled out since the declaration of a national emergency on insecurity are beginning to yield tangible results.
Ndume, a former Chairman of the Senate Committee on Army and a long-time advocate of stronger frontline support for security personnel, made his remarks in a statement issued in Abuja.
His comments come weeks after Tinubu unveiled a renewed national security drive aimed at reclaiming ungoverned spaces and strengthening inter-agency operations.
One of the major steps taken by the President was the directive to the Department of State Services to immediately deploy its already-trained forest guards to flush out bandits entrenched in forests and other hard-to-reach locations.
The President also vowed that “there will be no more hiding places for agents of evil,” alongside ongoing plans to recruit additional personnel into both the Nigerian Police Force and the Army to reinforce overstretched units.
Reacting to these moves, Ndume praised the deployment order and the synergy it has created across security formations.
He said the forest guards’ involvement had significantly supported military operations, noting that “their training has gone a long way to complement the efforts of the Nigerian Army and they are happy with that too.”
