WorldStage Newsonline– Nigeria’s Service Chiefs on Wednesday met the leadership of the Senate at the National Assembly and demanded for the provision of special fund to improve security of the country.
Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki who disclosed this after the closed door meeting on how to halt proliferation of dangerous firearms, spate of killings by terrorists and kidnapping by hoodlums across the country said the Chiefs requested for bills on security to be fast-tracked to enable them tackle the various security menace ravaging the country.
Saraki said the Senate and the service chief were committed to end the killings, saying, “we have a role to play they have a role to play.”
Senators took turns to decry what they described as the reign of terror in some parts of the country due to uncontrolled proliferation of firearms.
Senate had summoned National Security Adviser (NSA) Babagana Monguno, the Service Chiefs, Comptroller General, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and Comptroller Generai, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to brief the Senate on how to halt arms proliferation.
The resolution to invite the security chiefs followed the unanimous adoption of a motion, “Proliferation of dangerous firearms in Nigeria”, sponsored by Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi (Kaduna North).
The Service Chiefs present were Chief of Defence Staff Maj. Gen. Abayomi Olonishakin; Director General of the Department of State Security, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Comptroller Generai, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), and other representatives.
