Terrorism: Stop giving motorcycles as palliatives – Defence Minister tells governors

Minister of Defence, Gen. Christopher Musa (retd.), has appealed to authorities governors and lawmakers to reconsider the organisation of motorcycles arsenic palliatives, informing that immoderate of the vehicles could yet beryllium diverted to terrorists and utilized to enactment their operations.

Musa made the telephone on Thursday during an interrogation connected Channels Television’s Politics Today, wherever helium spoke astir the Federal Government’s efforts to tackle coercion and the challenges facing information agencies successful the country.

According to the minister, motorcycles supply terrorists with an vantage due to the fact that they tin beryllium utilized to navigate hard terrain, determination rapidly and flight information operatives.

“We effort to entreaty to adjacent governors to halt giving motorcycles retired arsenic palliatives due to the fact that these motorcycles are the aforesaid ones that inactive extremity up with these terrorists.

“Even if you person to give, don’t springiness them the big-capacity motorcycles; springiness them the small-capacity ones that they won’t beryllium capable to usage to tally around, due to the fact that that gives th...