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President Muhammadu Buhari with the leadership of the National Assembly (image courtesy: State House)
Senate President Ahmad Lawan has said that President Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of the National Assembly have agreed to tackle the high level of insecurity in the country.
He made this known to State House correspondents after meeting with the president alongside the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, in the State House on Monday.
According to Lawan, president Buhari expressed serious concern over security challenges facing the country and agreed to do all they could to tackle the problems.
He said the meeting discussed all issues of security including the performances of the security agencies in addressing the menace of insurgency, banditry and kidnapping in the country.
Lawan also said the resolutions of the National Assembly on insecurity, part of which was that service chiefs should be asked to resign or sacked were discussed.
He said: “We met with Mr. President over the security issues in the country and other matters of governance. The recent security challenges this country is facing requires that we work very closely.
“We had the debates in the two chambers of the National Assembly last week and resolutions were taken and we have come to discuss with Mr President on the way forward, what we feel about some of these security challenges and also to ask him what he thinks we should do.
“We discussed everything that matters as far as the issue of security of this country is concerned.’’
Lawan further revealed that the meeting discussed the need to provide additional necessary equipment and welfare for the nation’s armed forces and the police, to enable them to operate and perform efficiently and effectively.
The Senate President added that the Presidency and National Assembly were on the same page as President Buhari had expressed serious concern over the security situation in the country.
“Of course as the leader of this country he is more worried than anybody else about the situation.
“So, we are on the same page that we should be able to do whatever it takes to ensure that the security agencies are able to perform better than they are doing now,’’ he said.
On whether the removal of service chiefs from office would solve the nation’s security challenges, Lawan said, “You see, in matters of security of course as leaders we are supposed to lead but when it concerns security every single citizen matters in this.
“So, it is for all of us, citizens and leaders to ensure that we are playing our part as it is necessary.
“But I believe that now the time has come, we have reached a tipping point that everybody in Nigeria is concern about the security situation and therefore, we are all prepared and that is why we have come to meet with Mr President as leaders of National Assembly on behalf of our colleagues, to discuss the way forward.
“And of course, I believe that citizens participation is critical and crucial.’’
The Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, who also spoke to State House correspondents after the meeting, said the national assembly had resolved to set up a committee that would review issue of security periodically.
“We are talking, even just right now we have gone on to set up a committee that will periodically review the issue of security, maybe once a month or once in six weeks, which will involve the two arms of government and the party,’’ he said.
He expressed optimism that Nigerians would begin to see positive changes as major progress was made in their discussion with President Buhari.
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