Nigeria’s Senate has summoned service chiefs over the spate of insecurity in the country.
The lawmakers unanimously made this decision following an emergency session on Tuesday, the first legislative day of the year.
Following the head of the Senate, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, introducing a resolution on behalf of the senators regarding the nation’s security state, the Senate entered an executive session.
Following a two-hour private meeting, the Senate met again and decided to invite the service chiefs the following week due to the recent wave of national instability.
The service chiefs are the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Musa; Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt-General Taoreed Lagbaja; Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Hassan Abubakar, and Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla.
The Senate also adjourned plenary to February 6 to allow lawmakers to participate in Saturday’s by-elections.
From the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Abuja to Mangu in Plateau State as well as other parts of the country, kidnappings and killings have been recorded of late with the latest in the dastard act of criminals being the murder of two traditional rulers in Ekiti State — the Onimojo of Imojo-Ekiti, Oba Olatunde Olusola; and the Elesun of Esun-Ekiti, Oba David Ogunsola. The two monarchs were killed when they were returning from a meeting in Irele-Ekiti on Monday.
Opposition voices like Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi have called on the President Bola Tinubu administration to stem the tide of the ugly incidents while the Presidency continues to insist that the President is on top of the situation.
