*Crime rate declining, says IGP
By Chesa Chesa
Nigeria’s security chiefs say they are taking steps to ensure safety of petroleum installations to ensure the country achieves the crude oil production target of 2.1million barrels per day.
Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa spoke on their behalf Friday after a routine briefing of the security chiefs to President Bola Tinubu, at the State House, Abuja.
Musa affirmed that President Tinubu was aware of the challenges the oil producing communities are facing,he assured of concrete steps being taken to address their grievances to achieve increased oil production in the areas.
“Nigeria relies a lot on what we produce and its mandate is for us to restore full production, we are targeting 2.1m bpd which is achievable so we are taking steps to ensure that all that is required to be done is done.
“The President is aware of the ills and cries of the communities and he is not going to let them down, the communities should be assured that steps are going to be taken to address their grievances so that productions will continue”, he stated.
General Musa then warned criminals stealing or destroying national infrastructure to desist as the Nigerian security would come after them with joint security efforts against challenges of insecurity in the country.
“For the criminals those that are hell-bent on stealing our infrastructure, stealing our crude for whatever reasons their days are numbered they should rest assured that we are coming after them and we want to assure Nigerians that we all need to put our hands together to achieve this success”, he added.
On his part, Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, said the President challenged the security chiefs to work together and improve synergy among them while expressing satisfaction with the security reports presented to him.
Egbetokun said: “It is a routine security meeting we had with Mr President where we had the opportunity of giving him security briefs, this we have been doing regularly, Mr President is satisfied with our report he has challenged us to continue to work together and improve our synergy.
“As Inspector-General of Police, we have records of all reported crimes across the country and can tell you that the crime rate is declining in Nigeria.
“Records don’t lie the records are there so I can assure you that we will continue to do what we are doing to maintain the decline in the crime rate.”
