Insecurity: Again, Senate To Meet Service Chiefs Next Week

The Nigerian Senate has postponed the security briefing from Service Chiefs.

The briefing would now hold on February 13, according to the Senate President Godswill Akpabio who ruled on the motion moved by Opeyemi Bamidele, the Senate Leader that the meeting needed to be expanded to accommodate other stakeholders in the country.

The motion was seconded by Senator Abba Moro, Senate Minority Leader.

The Nigeria’s upper legislative chamber had last week summoned the security top brass to brief them on the security situation in the country which has gone hay wire in the last few weeks.

Sources in the chamber told the magazine that the Senate decided to summon the service chiefs which included the Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Maj. Gen. C.G Musa; Chief of Army Staff, Maj. Gen T. A Lagbaja; Chief of Air Staff, AVM H.B Abubakar; Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Emmanuel Ikechukwu Ogalla;  Inspector-General of Police, DIG Kayode Egbetokun  in response to Nigerians outbursts over the current insecurity in the country.

Recall that gunmen attacked two local governments in Bokkos and Barkin-Ladi on Christmas Eve last year, leaving close to 200 dead in the wake of the brutal attack on the two communities.

Barely a week after, gun men returned to Durbi village of Shere district, Jos East local government area, of the state killing a father and his son.

Within the same period, Abuja, the nation’s capital was sacked by armed bandits who ran riot by kidnapping many residents, killing some of the abductees when ransom could not be raised by their families for their release.

Calm has now returned to the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, after security agencies swung into action to root out criminals from their hideouts, sources in the nation’s capital said.