“The issue of one group issuing a statement that is capable of destabilising the country and being responded to by another group in another part of the country did not start today and did not start yesterday. What l want to assure you is that the security organisations are very much on top of this matter,” the minister said.
The Federal Government has said that security agencies are on red alert over the ultimatum by a coalition of northern groups asking Igbo to vacate the region within three months.
The government said such a threat was capable of destabilising the country.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, stated this on Wednesday while fielding questions from State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo.
The minister said security agencies were very much on top of the issue.
He, however, noted that such a threat and the responses by other groups had always existed in the past.
“The issue of one group issuing a statement that is capable of destabilising the country and being responded to by another group in another part of the country did not start today and did not start yesterday.
“What l want to assure you is that the security organisations are very much on top of this matter,” the minister said.
