In a statement titled: “On Demand: A language of non-capitulation, non-appeasement,” Soyinka urged President Buhari to make killer herdsmen pay for their crimes to send a strong warning that his administration would not tolerate forceful land seizure anywhere in Nigeria
Browsing: Brigadier General Mansur Dan-Ali
Ortom said this during an engagement session with Editors in Abuja
Soyinka, in a statement to mark May Day, said he does not understand what the Minister of Defence, Brigadier General Mansur Dan-Ali, was still doing in government after openly supporting the killing by herdsmen
The Minister of Defence, retired Brigadier General Mansur Dan-Ali, had on Wednesday revealed that President Buhari had granted assent for the release of the $1 billion fund for the procurement of security equipment to fight insecurity in the country.
The President, in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Friday, commiserated with families of the victims of the ”heinous and inhuman attacks on defenceless citizens”
The summit, tagged: “Aqaba Retreat,” to be hosted by His Majesty, King Abdullah II of Jordan, would also look at ways at reinforcing joint security structures that would be more proactive in preventing attacks
To enable the army carry out this new mandate, the President has approved the request of the Minister of Defence, Brigadier General Mansur Dan Ali (rtd), for the stationing of a full battalion of Special Forces in Zamfara State and the operationalization of the newly-established 8 Division of the Nigerian Army in Sokoto in the new Order of Battle.
The Minister of Defence, Brigadier General Mansur Dan-Ali (retd), disclosed this to newsmen in his office in Abuja after a closed door meeting with the Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello.
The even for which the President was to visit Sambisa Forest, the Nigerian Army Small Arms Championship, was held on Monday, with the Minister of Defense, Brigadier General Mansur Dan-Ali, representing him
The Army had declared Shekau dead over two years ago