The Military High Command, has revealed that it will soon move its command centre to Maiduguri, Borno State in compliance with the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Usman Jibrin, made the disclosure to journalists on Tuesday, June 2, after a meeting between the service chiefs and the President.
According to the Naval Chief, the directive by the Commander-in-Chief that the Command Centre of the military be moved to Maiduguri must be obeyed with dispatch.
He said: “Since he was inaugurated as our commander-in-chief, this is the first time that we are formally meeting him to give general security briefing of the country. We have been able to provide insights into the security situation of Nigeria.
“Specifically on Boko Haram, with the level of successes being recorded, we want to maintain the tempo and sustain it until they are routed out. On the command centre, we will go back and work on it. Soon it will be carried out, it is a Presidential directive, it must be carried out, and we must do that as quickly as possible.”
Jibrin would also appeal to Nigerians to continue to provide intelligence to the military to enhance the success of the war against Boko Haram.
“All Nigerians should continue to support the military and provide us with the needed intelligence. Their movements and suspicious movement should be reported to the police, of course the police will make that available to us.
You know as we continue to put pressure on them, in the Sambisa area, they will try to run away from there and then create further problems, using improvised explosives devices.
“Like I told you, we are sustaining the tempo and the successes we have recoded so far, we want to continue to maintain that and if there is any suggested solutions that requires amendments or alteration of what we’re doing, why not? Most especially the more they give us the intelligence, the better.”
The President’s request of the Senate for “approval” for him of 15 special advisers is a request for bicameral legislative “approval“, by both the Senate and the House of Representatives. The request cannot be unicameral and thus exclusive to the Senate, as the President’s request is not for Senate “confirmation“ of special advisers already “nominated“ by him and sent to the Senate to exercise its constitutional power of “confirmation“ of presidential nomiations, exclusive of the House of Reps. It is for bicameral “approval“ to make the “nomination“ of 15 special advisers. Therefore, to the extent that the special advisers have to respectively be given relevant budgets to run an office, and remunerated for their public services, if constitutionally “nominated”, “confirmed“ and “appointed“, both Houses of the National Assembly must be inured of the President’s request and, by implication, invoke their constitutional Money Bill powers to approve or reject the President’s “15 special advisers request“. (I permit this publisher to, as may be necessary and proper, publish this brief federalist material.)