The house of representatives says among issues discussed
during a meeting with service chiefs on Tuesday was an “all-important” issue of
moles in the military.
Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of the house, said this on
Tuesday while briefing journalists at the national assembly in Abuja.
The legislators expressed
dissatisfaction with the attitude of the service chiefs and some heads of
agencies invited over the recent attack on a train in Kaduna.
The lower legislative chamber had invited Babagana Monguno, national security adviser (NSA); Bashir Magashi, minister of defence; Isiaka Amao, chief of air staff; Yusuf Bichi, director-general, Department of State Services (DSS); Usman Baba, inspector-general of police (IGP); Hadi Sirika, minister of aviation, and Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation.
Also invited were the heads of the Nigerian Civil Aviation
Authority, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Nigerian Airspace
Management Agency (NAMA), and Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC).
At the meeting held on March 30, the public officials were
absent and sent in their representatives instead.
Idris Wase, deputy speaker, had warned that the legislators
should not be taken for granted in the course of executing their constitutional
responsibility.
On Tuesday, the invited government officials appeared before
the panel consisting of members of the house leadership and security
committees.
The meeting held behind closed-doors.
Addressing reporters after the meeting which lasted for four
hours, Gbajabiamila said the legislators had “extensive deliberation” with the
invited public officials.
“We had an extensive deliberation. The issues we discussed
there —unfortunately defence matters are not for public consumption,” he said.
“But I can assure
you, it was a lot of collaboration. A lot of ideas came together in terms of how
security agents can work together in one voice, as opposed to different voices.
“We talked about the all-important issue of whether or not
there are elements within the military — the issue of mole like some people
have stated.
“We talked about training and retraining. We talk about
capacity and allowances. A lot of them, like I have said, touched on security.
For us to have been there for four to five hours, we made some good headway and
extensive decisions were made.”
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