Terrorism: FG bans use of motorcycles, mining nationwide
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday chaired the National Security Council with a warning on measures being considered to prevent terrorist activities in the nation’s capital and other states.
The National Security Council after its deliberation banned the use of motorcycle transportation nationwide and Mining businesses to cut off terrorist financing and source of funding.
Rising from the meeting, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, alongside his Interior and Police Affairs counterparts, Rauf Aregbesola and Mohammed Dingyadi respectively made this known to the State House Correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Malami, said the decision to focus on the logistics used by the terrorists was deliberate.
He said the ban would include motorcycles used for movement and Mining, adding that such means provide the terrorists with the money to fund their arms supply.
According to Malami, the Federal Government is now looking into ways to block the actions of the terrorists by frustrating their already identified sources.
He disclosed that terrorists have designed new means from the traditional methods of funding to Mining and ransom taking, necessitating government actions.
The Minister of Interior, Aregbesola, also confirmed that significant efforts were being made to gather intelligence before the recent attack on the Kuje Correctional Centre regretting that there was a lack of will to act on it.
According to Aregbesola, a preliminary investigation of the attack had been submitted to the President.
He assured that those found to have failed in their responsibilities at the end of the ongoing investigation would be punished.
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