Insecurity: Senate to meet service chiefs on Wednesday

The senate will meet the service chiefs on Wednesday over the worsening insecurity across the country.

Adetokunbo Abiru, chairman of the senate committee on banking, insurance and other financial institutions, announced the meeting on Tuesday while speaking with journalists in Abuja.

Abiru was explaining why Olayemi Cardoso, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), could not appear before his committee.

He said Cardoso was unavailable because he appeared before the house of representatives in plenary.

“After waiting for close to two hours for the CBN governor on the planned interface, we have resolved to postpone it to Friday, by 9:00 am prompt,” he said.

“Postponement of the interface between our committee and the CBN governor arose from the fact that he, and other managers of the nation’s economy, have been interfacing with our colleagues in the house of representatives since morning without knowing when exactly the session will end.

“We would have fixed Wednesday or Thursday as a new day for the interface but the senate as a whole, has fixed the two days for very critical and constructive engagement with the service chiefs.

“This made us eventually settle for Friday to interface with the CBN governor.”

On January 30, the senate resolved to invite the service chiefs over the worsening insecurity in the country.

The service chiefs being expected at the meeting are Christopher Musa, chief of defence staff; Taoreed Lagbaja, chief of army staff; Emmanuel Ogalla, chief of naval staff; and Hassan Abubakar, chief of air staff.

Over the past few weeks, there have been cases of killing and abductions in many parts of the country, including the federal capital territory (FCT) – where six sisters and their father were kidnapped from their home in the Bwari area council.