In a press statement he personally signed, BAT directed the Department of State Services, DSS, to immediately deploy all the forest guards already trained to neutralize the terrorists and bandits lurking in Nigeria’s forests.
Ordering the army and the police should work on recruiting more personnel, he told the National Assembly to begin the process of reviewing the law that will allow states to establish state police.
He stated that with more security personnel in the forests, there will be no more hiding places for agents of darkness.