Insecurity: Senate plans regional meetings with the interested parties

Insecurity: Senate plans regional meetings with the interested parties

Abuja (basic reporter) The Senate of Nigeria has revealed its plan to keep meetings with the parties concerned in each geo-political area in order to discover the causes of the root of the threat and devise pragmatic measures to restore peace and stability in troubled areas.

The high chamber has defended this initiative for the fact that no amount of money invested in the development of infrastructures would guarantee a tangible result if peace and stability were not established in the danger areas.

The leader of the Senate and the President, the Senate’s ad hoc committee for the summit of national security, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele eliminated the plans during the inaugural meeting of the committee held at the Senate New Wing, National Assembly Complex, Abuja Wednesday.

Between serious concerns about the safety of lives, private activities and public installations at national level, the Senate had constituted a committee of 20 men on the summit of national security and equally appointed Bamidele to guide the process and offer measures for lasting peace.

Next to Bamidele, the belonging to the Committee includes the chief whisk of the Senate, Senator Tahir Monguno; Minority of the Senate, Senator Abba Moro, minority whisk of the Senate, Senator Osita Ngwu; President, Senate Committee on the interior, Senator Adams Oshiomhole; President, Senate Police Affairs Committee, Senator Ahmad Malam-Madori; President, Senate Committee for the Navy, Senator Gbenga Daniel President, Senate’s Defense Committee, Senator Ahmed Lawan and President, Committee for the Senate Army, Senator Abdulaziz Yar’adua, among others.

But at the inaugural meeting on Wednesday, the President of the AD HOC Committee discussed the need to face the country’s security concerns at regional level, stating that the national top of security has been designed “to ensure that every Nigerian alive and work in peace regardless of their position and status in life”.

Bamidele also said that no sum of money invested in the development of infrastructures “will translate into a significant result without peace and security. For this reason, transforming pervasive insecurity into lasting peace is at the center of the national security summit.

“To achieve this, the Committee will first hold meetings with the critical interested parties in each geo-political area in order to reveal the causes at the root of the safety challenges, identifying the key actors behind it and creating measures for their effective management.

“The Committee must also involve the victims of armed violence in different parts of the Federation in order to seek different perspectives for these challenges. We interact with our people on the ground; listen to their fear and apprehension and collect their suggestions on how to transform insecurity into an effective order”, assured the Nigerians.

Bamidele also explained that Nigeria “can be on the path of development and prosperity when peace and unity are guaranteed. Therefore, the committee will work 24 hours a day to develop large -reach measures that will lead to peace and stability

“The summit will involve each segment of the Nigerian company; traditional institutions, government agencies, military and intelligence/security agencies and local government, media and other individuals and public spirits groups with good ideas to be shared to achieve the desired result of the summit.”

By providing information on the country’s safety dynamics, the Senate leader noticed the bad tendencies of the bandits and kidnapping in the North-West; terrorism and extremist violence in the north-east; Crisis of farmers-Herders in the center north; separatism and group violence in the South-East; Environmental conflict and oil theft in the South-South, as well as kidnapping and ritual killings in the south-west.

The president observed that the activities of the insurgents and bandits “were limited to the north-east and north-west in the past with some states attacked in the center north. Today, however, Kwara is negatively affected. Benue’s story is worsening day by day.

“In the south-east, the separatist conflicts and the farmers-Herdsmen are becoming almost a daily event. This is aggravated by the threat of kidnapping for the ransom. The South-West is not excluded from this plague, in particular with the growing cases of ritual killing.

“South-south is also afflicted by the incessant vandalization of national oil activities, kidnapping, oil theft, piracy and march robbery. All these problems constitute economic sabotage for our homeland,” said Bamidele with the certainty of clinging the challenges on the sprout.