Senate Prioritizes Security, Adopts Jimoh’s Motion for National Security Summit
The Nigerian Senate in attempt to addressing the resurfaced consistent attacks, adoption, killing and wanton destruction of properties across the states of the federation has resolved to convene a national security summit with major stakeholders to brainstorm on the security challenges bedeviling the country with a view to rejigging the national security architecture and strategy to nip insecurity in the bud.
The Senate resolution followed a motion by Senator Jimoh Ibrahim (Ondo South, APC) on Tuesday at the Senate first plenary after resuming from recess.
Leading the debate, Senator Ibrahim linked Nigeria’s deteriorating security to global instability—citing the Russia-Ukraine war, the growing tension between the global North and South, and the ongoing tariff war in the United States; said these developments have deepened food insecurity and derailed progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
“The high level of global insecurity has instilled local insecurity,”
Briefing journalists shortly after plenary, he argued that Insurgency is like hot water,and the perimeter it’s used to get hot is the same perimeter it take to get calm, said patience and consistency is required.
Sen. Jimoh who debunked the narrative of understanding security by staying in insecurity enjoins Nigerians to at least invest 10% of their income on security, affirming President Bola Tinubu’s commitment to restoring security across Nigeria.
“President Tinubu is serious about the peace of Nigeria.”
Concerned that most of the military’s coded communication strategies such as Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliet, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-ray, and Yankee are no longer potent as exclusivity has been lost to non military. Said the summit among other things will develop and provides security alternative communication strategies in military operations.
The motion was seconded by Distinguished Senator Mohammed Dandutse (Katsina South)
