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Killings: Service Chiefs honour Senate summons - Edoman - 05-24-2018
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By Ignatius Okorocha
Unlike the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Ibrahim Idris, the nation’s Service Chiefs on Wednesday honoured the summons of the Senate over the rising wave of killings and other security challenges in the country.
In their various presentations to the Senate, the Service Chiefs demanded for special funding to enable them end the killings in different parts of the country.
The security chiefs were led to the meeting by the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin.
The meeting lasted about four hours in a closed-door session, and focused on the proliferation of arms, killings by terrorists and kidnapping by hoodlums across the country.
The invitation to the service chiefs and heads of other security agencies followed a motion brought on the floor of the Senate a fortnight ago by Senator Suleiman Hunkunyi, which was adopted in the Red Chamber.
Those invited to brief the lawmakers were the National Security Adviser (NSA), the CDS, IGP, the Comptroller-General, Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), the Director-General, Department of State Services (DSS), and the Comptroller-General, Nigerian Customs Service (NSC).
However, the meeting which started at about 12.30pm and ended at 4.30pm, was attended by Olonisakin and the DG of DSS, Lawal Daura.
The NIS boss, IGP and Col. Hameed Ali (rtd) sent representatives. The IGP and Ali are seen by Nigerians as President Muhammadu Buhari’s “big boys”, with disdain for the Senate.
Ali and Ibrahim have repeatedly gone to court to resist the summons by the Senate.
Giving a brief of what transpired at the parley, the Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki, said that after listening to the some of the challenges faced by the security agencies in the war against insurgency, terrorism, kidnapping and other crimes, the Senate directed them to prepare a supplementary budget for special funding to enable them end the menace.
He said: “On the whole, we directed that on our part, certain outstanding bills or protocols that need to be fast-tracked should be addressed as soon as possible in order to strengthen the security architecture.
“We observed the funding issue and we also agreed that there must be a special funding and as such, we gave them two weeks to present the budget they think will help to improve the security situation in the country”.
On the apparent lack of co-ordination among the security agencies, the Senate stressed the need for them to work with one another to secure Nigeria.
According to Saraki, to ensure the recurring killings in parts of the country was brought to a quick end, the lawmakers and heads of security agencies resolved to work together to end the menace.
Fielding questions from journalists, the Senate spokesman, Senator Abdullahi Aliyu Sabi, explained that the special fund was not part of the $1billion requested by the Presidency.
“That $1bn was not in today’s matter. The money was specifically for the military. Here, we are talking about security formation generally. Given the current insecurity situation in the country, we are worried.
“They have the national budget but it is also very clear that whatever it is, that is being budgeted for under the annual appropriation, may not solve the problem. That is why we are talking about special funding,” he said.
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