Senate Urges President Tinubu to Revamp Security Strategy in Troubled North-West
The Senate has called on President Bola Tinubu to thoroughly review and reassess the strategies being used to combat insecurity.
The lawmakers also urged the President to consider deploying additional forces to the troubled North-West region to better protect lives and property.
This resolution was reached during Thursday’s plenary, which was presided over by Deputy Senate President Jibrin Barau.
The motion, titled “Urgent Need to Review Security Approach in Addressing Banditry Attacks in Katsina, Sokoto, Zamfara, Kaduna, and Kebbi States in the North-West of Nigeria,” was sponsored by Senator Sani Zangon Daura of Katsina North, along with 10 other senators.
The motion lamented that the same set of known bandits are moving in a circle in all the seven states of the North-West without interdiction by troops.
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He said collaboration and coordination among the state governments, relevant stakeholders and troops were not good enough, hence a workable strategy must be worked out to deal with the situation as the zone has been taken over completely.
The upper chamber urged Tinubu to seize the opportunity of the North-West governors’ willingness to support workable and acceptable initiatives that “promote peace, security and development in the region” to deal with crime and criminality in the troubled region.
In his contribution, Senator Abba Moro, representing Benue South, urged the government at the centre to double effort in tackling bandits, stressing that the situation was degenerating day by day.
Moro rejected the assertion by the Deputy Senate President, Barau, that Tinubu was doing well in the area of tackling insecurity. “It will amount to hypocrisy if we sit here to say Mr President is doing well,” Moro said.
After other senators made their contributions, condemning the high rate of banditry in the entire North-West, the Senate further sent prayers to the military and other security agencies to be proactive and innovative in their strategies to secure farmlands, so that farmers can return to their farms.
