President Goodluck Jonathan, speaking at a town hall meeting, as he concluded his working visit to Borno State, stated emphatically that he would no longer tolerate the killing of security personnel in the country.
He also insisted that he will not withdraw the soldiers attached to the Joint Task Force, currently maintaining law and order in troubled states of the federation.
“I cannot preside over this country as a president and security officers are killed. These people leave their families, stay on the road and the bush so that we will sleep and I will not want to hear that one of them is killed,” he said.
“So nobody should make an analogy that one soldier killed. We have admonished the soldiers not to kill innocent civilians but we will not allow and I will not celebrate the death of one security officer anywhere in this country whether it is in Bayelsa State, whether it is in Niger Delta, whether it is in Anambra State, whether it is in the South East, whether it is the South West, whether it is in North West, whether it is in North Central, anywhere. We will not, and I repeat, we will not accommodate it.”
Jonathan condemned politicians in the state, who he accused of not doing enough about the issue of security in Borno.
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