According to The Punch, the security measure was taken because of the renewed attacks by the Boko Haram sect in the North-East. “Detachments of armed soldiers, mostly drawn from the Guards Brigade, were seen manning checkpoints at various entrances to Abuja.
A similar sight was also observed along Kubwa– Zuba, Giri-Gwawalada-Lokoja and the Keffi-Mararaba-Nyanya-Abuja roads, where troops were also manning checkpoints with high-calibre weapons on display”.
Meanwhile, the spokesman for the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Mr. Emmanuel Okeh told The Punch that “it had deployed 2,000 of its officers and men, as well as 100 sniffer dogs, at strategic locations within the city as part of the security architecture put in place for the conference”.
The National Conference to be chaired by a former Chief Justice, Hon (Justice) Idris Lebo Kutigi, is expected to address some of the problems that have bedeviled the most populous black nation. 492 delegates from all the ethnic nationalities that make up Nigeria will converge in Abuja to discuss the future of the country, and unlike the event of 1914, give consent to their continuous existence as a nation.
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