The senate has asked heads of
security agencies to send a special budget that would enable them tackle
insecurity in the country.
The senators had summoned heads
of security agencies over the proliferation of firearms and widespread killings
across the country.
The lawmakers were briefed in a
closed-door session that lasted about four hours on Wednesday.
Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin, chief
of defence staff; Lawal Daura, director-general of the Department of State
Services (DSS) and representatives from the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS),
Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) and office of the national security adviser
(ONSA) were present at the senate chamber.
A representative of Ibrahim
Idris, inspector-general of police (IGP), was also present.
Speaking after the closed
session, Senate President Bukola Saraki said the lawmakers gave the security
chiefs two weeks to present the budget.
“The senate in a closed committee
of the whole, received brief of the chief of defence staff, the
director-general of the Department of State Services (DSS), representatives of
the comptroller-general of Immigration, inspector-general of police,
comptroller-general of customs on the proliferation of dangerous arms, spate of
killings and kidnappings by hoodlums across the country,” Saraki said.
“Thereafter, they answered
questions from the senators bothering security, insurgency, terrorism,
kidnapping and other talks on national security matters.
“And on the whole, we decided
directly that on our part, certain outstanding bills or protocols that needed
to be given a fast track, be addressed immediately to see that they can be
passed as soon as possible in order to strengthen security architecture.
“Secondly, of course, we all
observed the funding issue and also agreed that there must be special funding.
So we gave them two weeks to present their own budget on this are of special
funding that we think will go a long way to improve the security situation in
the country.
“Our great concern also was the
issue of coordination among the security agencies and on that, we’ll be looking
on how to strengthen that aspect of insecurity through constitutional law
passage.”
The senate president reiterated
that the lawmakers will “ensure that this unfortunate trend of killings is
brought to an end”.
“We all agreed to continue to
work very closely and cooperate in order to address this issue and we are
confident that changes will be seen in this area. We have our role to play and
they are committed to playing their own role and we hope that over the next
couple of weeks, we will begin to take action on some of these things that we
are committed to,” he said.
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