From Jude Owuamanam, Managing Editor, Northern Operations
Minister of Interior, Gen. Abdulrahman Danbazzau, has said that everything would be done to safeguard the country’s sovereignty.
He assured Nigerians that they are free to live anywhere in the country, adding that October 1 would come and go like any other day.
The minister, who spoke to journalists in Jos after a meeting of Hausa and Igbo residents in Jos brokered by Governor Simon Lalong, at Government House, on Friday, warned youths in the country not to do anything that would jeopardise the unity of the country.
Danbazzau, who also spoke on the ongoing military exercise in the South East code named ‘Operation Python Dance II’, said that he was yet to understand the operational details of the exercise, but that it was not meant to intimidate the people of the region.
Rather he said that it was in the best interest of the citizens to have peace in the country.
Governor Lalong also gave assurances that every citizen in the state would be well protected.
He said that he had instructed security agencies to ensure that no one was molested during the period of the curfew.
On his part, Prof. JEC Obilom, said that the only way to restore peace to the South East region was for the military to stop Operation Python Dance II and leave Igboland.
He said that the operation is the cause of the present tension in the country.
The meeting was attended by leaders of the various ethnic groups in the country.