President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday met with leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) where he hinted of a shakeup in the country's security structure.'At the security level, we are doing our best, we will restructure, we will re-adjust and make sure we get a team that will meet with the challenge we are facing today,' Jonathan told the CAN delegation led by its President Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor at the State House in Abuja.Jonathan, who met on Tuesday with the Muslim leadership in the country led by Sultan of Sokoto Sa'ad Abubakar, reassured CAN and Nigerians that any terror attack on any individual or structure in this country is an attack on all of us because terrorists don't have boundary.'That is why some of them can even go to the extreme of suicide bombing. You see somebody throw an explosive into the market, he does not even care whether his father or mother is there. What thing that the world has witnessed, the ugly part of our history, that is why some people described it as attack of the evil ones on a decent society.'One thing I normally mention is that yes, we have been coping with criminals in this country. The most ferocious are the armed robberies. We have never experienced armed robbery before the civil war. It was after the civil war Nigeria started experiencing armed robbery. Since then, government has been battling armed robbery. But then, this terror attack is new to us but I can assure you that we are doing our best to make sure that we get over it.'Other countries that have experienced it are also helping us. Both African and non-African countries that have suffered attacks are assisting. I encourage Nigerians to work with government because when we work together collectively, we will get over it. The terrorists are human beings, they are not spirits, they live with us, they dine with us. We know them, people know them. As long as Nigerians are committed to expose them, we will get over this ugly situation.'When in December 2009, a Nigerians was caught in a flight to US, we were all surprised and embarrassed. We thought such people were not living with us, that probably he was contaminated outside. Now we have come to meet the reality that we have terrorists and even suicide bombers among us. We must fish them out, we only ask for the cooperation of all Nigerians.'And I will plead with religious leaders, both Muslims and Christian leaders, to work together because terrorism is like a cancer to the body, it starts from somewhere and spread to all the organs of the body.
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