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Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has charged the military to defeat the ideology and mindset that “feeds the madness” of terrorism.

He said this at the graduation of the 2017 class of senior course 39 of the armed forces command and staff college, Jaji, Kaduna state., Osinbajo advised the military to cut off the oxygen of insurgency.

The acting president also advised the military to cut off the oxygen of insurgency.

“The battle is not just to defeat the terrorists, the greater battle is to defeat the ideology and mindset that feeds the madness and to cut off its oxygen, money and publicity,” he said.

He emphasised that Nigerians could build a new a new nation where its leaders “do not steal the commonwealth” of the country.

“We can build a new nation; a new nation built on trust, consensus and love for one another and love for our country is possible,” Osinbajo said.

“A nation where the rulers do not steal the commonwealth, where every Nigerian is safe to live and work, where the state takes responsibility for the security of each and every Nigerian, where the State knows every Nigerian by name and can find and locate each one of us

“A Nigeria where the Igbo or Ijaw man can live peacefully in Sokoto, and the Fulani man can live peacefully in the Niger Delta.

“I would like to emphasise the fact that this was essentially an elite phenomenon, unity and disunity are promoted by the elite which the vast majority of the Nigerian people are only later conscripted.

“While we must remain irrevocably committed to freedom of expression and the tenets of a free press, we must draw the line between freedom that conduces to healthy democracy and that which threatens and endangers the entire democratic enterprise. It is an important balance, that we must strike. Failure in any way will be tragic.”