Fashola blames terrorists’ attacks on Malians, Chadians

on MAY 8, 2012 · in NEWS

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By EVELYN USMAN
IKEJA — Lagos State Government, yesterday, said terrorists attacks in the country, which had led to the deaths of  several Nigerians were orchestrated by Malians and Chadians, blaming the porosity of the borders for the infiltration of mischievous  foreigners into the country.

Meanwhile, the Nigerian Army has called on Nigerians to join hands in the fight against terrorism, saying that security agencies alone cannot win the war.

Governor Babatunde Fashola, at a five-day seminar/training workshop  on Democracy, Peace Building and Conflict Management for the Military, at the Nigerian Army College of Logistics, NACOL, noted that the security and checks at the nation’s borders was nothing, compared to what was obtained  in Cameroun and other neighbouring countries’ borders.

He called for proper policing of the borders  to check the influx of terrorists into the country.

Represented by his Special Adviser on Politics and Legislative Matters, Mr. Muslim Folami, Fashola stressed the need for state police, noting that it was only under such a situation that a state governor indeed, be  called the chief security officer of his state.

As part of security measures to check threat of likely attack on the state, Fashola said the central mosque in Ikeja had been shut down temporarily, while proper checks on vehicles going in and out of Alausa had been intensified.

Earlier, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-General Azubuike Ihejirika, who was represented by the  General Officer Commanding 81 Division, Major-General Kenneth  Minima, said the seminar could not have come at a better time than now, following the current security challenges facing the country.