The
Senate yesterday grilled the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Kenneth
Minimah, Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosun and The Director
of Department of State Service, Mr. Ekpenyong Ita for eight hours over
the security situation in the North.
The senate also
disclosed that the Nigeria military was mounting pressure on them for
the extension of emergency rule in the three North Eastern states of
Adamawa, Borno and Yobe for them to be able to conduct operations in a
manner that will bring insurgency to a quick resolution.
The
red chambers failed to discuss President Goodluck Jonathan’s request
for the extension of emergency rule in the affected states despite the
fact that the emergency rule had expired Thursday last week.
Chairman, Senate Committee on Information, Media and Public Affairs,
Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, who briefed newsmen after about eight hours
closed-door session with the Service Chiefs, said that the Security
heads insisted that the extension of emergency rule was necessary for
the quick resolution of the insurgency in the affected states.
Senator
Abaribe said that during the closed-door session, all the constraints
the Nigerian military was facing towards bringing the insurgency to an
end were deliberated as well as the military budgetary provisions.
Credit: Johnbosco Agbakwuru /Joseph Erunke/Vanguard
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