US EditionKebbi Attack: Senate Urges Tinubu to Recruit 100,000 Troops
The Nigerian Senate demands 100,000 new troops and launches a committee to probe Safe Schools Initiative funding after terrorists abducted 25 students and killed a vice principal.
- On Sunday, the Nigerian Senate demanded the Federal Government recruit at least 100,000 additional military personnel following a gunmen attack on Government Girls Comprehensive Senior Secondary School in Maga, Kebbi State.
- Following a motion of urgent national importance, lawmakers warned security services are stretched and police per polling unit are lacking, with Senator Abdullahi Yahaya citing attacks discouraging girls' education.
- Senate President Godswill Akpabio called the abductions troubling and the chamber observed a minute of silence for Malam Hassan Yakubu Makuku, the slain vice principal.
- The Senate established an ad hoc committee including Committee on Finance to investigate Safe Schools Initiative funding and urged security agencies to track down perpetrators without delay.
- With past abductions taking years to resolve, senators recalled the 2014 Chibok girls kidnapping and a 2022 abduction that took four years to free victims as the international community monitors Nigeria's security.
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Senate Seeks Recruitment Of 100,000 Troops, Probe Of Safe School Funds
The Senate, on Tuesday, urged President Bola Tinubu to approve the recruitment of 100,000 fresh military personnel to confront insurgency, banditry and the rising wave of school abductions across the country. The lawmakers also demanded a full investigation into the Safe School Programme, questioning how funds allocated to the initiative were spent despite repeated attacks on educational institutions. Their concerns were provoked by the recent a…
Terrorism: Nigerian Senate Seeks Urgent Recruitment Of 100,000 Soldiers By Armed Forces
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday demanded an immediate overhaul of the country’s security manpower, calling on the Armed Forces to “immediately recruit at least 100,000 personnel” to confront the worsening insecurity sweeping across several states. The upper chamber also resolved to set up an ad-hoc committee to investigate “the funding, expenditure and outcome of the Safe School Programme,” a scheme that has consumed billions of naira with little…
Kebbi schoolgirls abduction: Senate calls for urgent recruitment of 100,000 soldiers
Senate has called on the Federal Government to urgently recruit at least 100,000 additional military personnel as part of measures to confront Nigeria’s escalating security challenges. The resolution followed a motion raised on Tuesday on the killing of a vice-principal and the abduction of 25 students of Government Girls Comprehensive The post Kebbi schoolgirls abduction: Senate calls for urgent recruitment of 100,000 soldiers appeared first on…
Senate Calls For 100,000 Additional Military Recruitment to Combat Insecurity — Akelicious
The senate is urging Nigeria’s Armed Forces to immediate recruit at least 100,000 personnel to tackle insecurity in parts of the country. It is also to set up an adhoc committee to look into the funding, expenditure and outcome of the safe school programme. These and other resolutions were adopted following a motion on the Monday’s abduction of 25 students of Government Girls Comprehensive Senior Secondary School, Maga, in Kebbi state. Senate st…
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