BY: News Peddlers
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| General Musa Danmadami |
A peaceful transition to the new administration on May 29 has been emphasised by the Defence Headquarters, which also reaffirmed that the military and intelligence community were prepared to address any danger to national security.
At the biweekly news conference on the activities of the armed forces on Thursday in Abuja, Maj.-Gen. Musa Danmadami, Director, Defence Media Operations, made the assurance.
Mr. Danmadami urged the people to get rid of the anxiety brought on by the enemies of Nigeria's warnings about security risks.
“Like the general elections has come and gone, winners have been announced, people are just being apprehensive to be insinuating situations that are not there.
“People have been predicting that this country will finish but nothing has happened.
“Members of the Armed Forces like I always tell you, will continue to give their best, and we are not resting on our oars to ensure that peace and security is sustained.
“I equally assure you that the intelligence community too are working round the clock just like the armed forces to ensure that there is peace and stability; I can assure you that there are a lot of follow up operations going on everyday.
“People who are at the verge of committing crime are being arrested; people who are moving ammunition from one point to the other to go and commit havoc are being arrested everyday as it was reflected in the brief for today.
“So people should not be afraid that when they hand over there is going to be calamity all over the place.
“I can assure you that we are ready to address whatever calamity that wants to come up.
“We are ready for that, so people should just go about their normal duties and forget about these apprehensions people are creating unnecessarily.
“There is no cause for alarm and everything is under control,” he said.
Mr Danmadami also assured the public that the Sallah would be celebrated peacefully, adding that there might be one or two isolated cases, but that the military and other security agencies would be ready to tackle them.
(NAN)