Jimoh Ibrahim says his phone detected 277 gunshots around the Senate chamber – TrendyNewsReporters

Jimoh Ibrahim, a senator representing Ondo South, says a software on his mobile phone, which detects the number of guns around him, detected over 277 guns in the Senate chamber.

Ibrahim spoke on the Senate floor on Wednesday, July 3, while contributing to a motion sponsored by Ali Ndume, a senator representing Borno South. Ndume had been addressing the recent suicide bombings in Gwoza, an LGA in his senatorial district.

Reacting, Jimoh Ibrahim argued for the need for technology in the fight against insecurity. “I don’t want to take up too much of your time, but I will clearly say that it doesn’t cost the smart army anything to get devices in their phones to know where these notorious criminals live,” Ibrahim said. “Since I am here, I check my phone regularly and I know how many weapons are very close to me here.

It is just under a thousand installations. Now, inside us, there are over 277 guns around here just because an armoury is close to this place.” Senate President Godswill Akpabio then asked him: “Of the 277 guns around you, do you know how many of them have bullets in them?” Ibrahim replied that because there is an armoury close to the National Assembly, the senators were safe. Ibrahim stressed the need for the army to use technology in the fight against insurgency.

“So what am I saying? We can use technology, just as the distinguished Senator Ndume said, to employ technology instead of using soldiers,” he said. “I want to say very clearly that the military should stop using unconventional strategies to fight the insurgency in Nigeria. There is a distinction between unconventional and conventional strategy.

We must use a conventional strategy to fight an unconventional war. Boko Haram is an unconventional war,” Senator Jimoh Ibrahim argued. “We are all aware of what has happened in Kenya. We cannot close our eyes, we must wake up. So, I will finally suggest to you, Mr. Senate President, and to my distinguished colleagues, that this Senate under your leadership, sir, must hold a closed-door meeting for one day and then use the whole day to discuss security issues. Our lives are very important.”

Senator Jimoh described the attacks in Gwoza, Borno State, as sad and embarrassing. “Living in insecurity cannot be the only way to understand security. We should not have to go to that,” he said,

“How can you go to a wedding and someone just planted a bomb to attack you and people started dying? It’s unjustified, it’s rejected in its entirety.”