Buhari, service chiefs deliberate on ban of motorcycles, mining activities nationwide

President Muhammadu Buhari and the service chiefs at the National Security Council meeting on Thursday at the State House, Abuja, deliberated on the ban of motorcycles (Okada) and    mining activities across the country as part of the measures to contain insecurity, tame security loopholes and block sources of terrorism and banditry funding in the country.

At the end of the meeting presided by President, Buhari the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, in a  media interaction at the State House, disclosed that the federal government  is still conducting investigations to ascertain the correlation between mining and motorcycles which they suspect provide funding for the supply of arms to bandits and terrorists.

Malami stated that terrorists had changed strategy from the conventional means of funding to mining and ransom taking.  The minister acknowledged that the federal government is not oblivion of the economic consequences of the resolutions, essentially the ban on motorcycle operations, saying that ‘the ban has become imperative in order to guarantee the nation’s security’.