Buhari lambasts Nigerian security chiefs over hostages

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered his security agencies to immediately rescue all those held hostage by kidnappers and what he described as “terrorists” across the country.

Speaking to military and police chiefs in the capital, Abuja, he said they had not been doing enough to end insecurity in Nigeria.

The government has been criticised for failing to protect its citizens.

The country has seen a rise in kidnapping, clashes between cattle herders and farmers in the central region, as well as banditry and an Islamist insurgency in the north-east.

By BBC