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Let’s Lead Military To Battlefield To Fight Boko Haram – Senator Challenges Colleagues
Ekwutosblog has gathered that A senator suggested a dramatic twist to the war against insurgency on Thursday, saying that it was high time senators led soldiers in the battlefield to fight Boko Haram.
Senator Karimi Sunday (APC Kogi-West) told the Senate that it was no longer enough passing resolutions every day, asking the military and the Federal Government to find solutions to insecurity.
He said a practical solution was for all political leaders, particularly the senators themselves, to do more than criticise the efforts of the government but to lead soldiers in the battlefield.
“We are all part of the federal government. Our military is overwhelmed, and they are trying their best.
“I believe that as leaders, we too can support them by going to the battlefield. We should lead them like the Chadian President (Idris Deby) did in the fight against insurgents in his country.
“I am not saying that our own President should lead, but we can do our own bit; we are leaders too,” he said.
Senator Sunday, who was contributing to the debate on yet another motion on insurgency in Borno State, also suggested that senators could use their zonal intervention project funds to provide security infrastructure in their communities as a way of supporting the efforts of the government.
“I have spoken with my colleague (Sen. Ali Ndume) a number of times. Look, there can be a kind of legislative intervention in terms of building the military bases we talk about, using our constituency projects.”
His suggestions came as the motion, which was sponsored by the Chief Whip of the Senate, Sen. Mohammed Monguno (APC, Borno-North), called on the Nigerian Armed Forces to establish a “super camp” at Guzamala Local Government Area of Borno State.
The motion also called for adequate mobilisation of personnel to secure Abadam and Marte local government areas, said to be completely under the control of Boko Haram insurgents.
Monguno acknowledged that peace was gradually returning to other parts of Borno State owing to the work of the military but drew attention to Marte, Abadam, and Guzamala, which “do not have any civil authority in place nor military presence.”
He added, “The absence of military personnel in the area may cause the insurgents to become more emboldened and attempt to capture surrounding communities, thus ruining the previous efforts by the government to secure the state.”
On his part, Ndume, a former chairman, Senate Committee on the Army, informed the Senate that the terrorists who regrouped in Marte, Abadam, and Guzamala were the same group chased out of Chad by Chadian forces.
He stated that the group simply settled down in the Nigerian border communities because the members knew there was no strong military presence there.
Ndume called for the deployment of far more superior firepower, including attack helicopters to check the terrorists.
“Today, it is Borno State; we have to be careful. It is spreading, and it can get to Kano tomorrow.
“It can spread further to other areas in the country; they are already in Sokoto and Kebbi,” he added.
Several senators also harped on the same point, urging for immediate military action against the insurgents.
Martin Amaewhule, Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, has defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Tori News reports Amaewhule defected along with 15 other members of the House on Friday.
Amaewhule said the defection is due to clear division in the PDP.
Recall that President Bola Tinubu declared a state of emergency in the state earlier this year in March, suspending the Governor, Sim Fubara and his Deputy alongside members of the State Assembly.
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bode George, has intensified his call for the establishment of state police to contain the wave of insecurity in Nigeria.
George made this call on Friday when he appeared during an interview on Arise Television monitored by Ekwutosblog.
He was reacting to the worsening insecurity situation in the country where innocent Nigerians, including women and schoolchildren are kidnapped and others killed in the process.
“First of all, what is wrong with establishing state police? We have seen nobody is going to cancel the Federal Police, but policing is local.
“When you now turn the boys who live in the same area and legalize their existence to put smiles on the faces of the people, it will be better to manage because they will understand the language of the locals. They know the do’s and don’ts in their own area. So why are we wasting time?
“I am happy I read something last week after the Arewa Consultative meeting in the North. They met and took a decision that they have agreed to a state police.
“Then the Southwest met with their governors, and the governors’ statement made after that conference is that they also accept having state police.
“What are we wasting time for? Because the way it is, you don’t even know who is telling the truth or who is telling the lie,” he said.
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Friday declared that he’s still a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Wike’s comment followed his expulsion from the party by the faction led by National Chairman, Kabiru Turaki.
Turaki had formally dispatched expulsion certificates to 11 prominent party chieftains, including Wike, former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, Umaru Bature, Kamarudeen Ajibade, SAN, Abdurahman Muhammad Senator Mao Ohuabunwa.
He said their expulsion was aimed at sanitising the party ahead of the 2027 elections.
Reacting to the development on Friday, Wike dismissed the claim while assuring that he would continue to work with other party members in making PDP a relevant opposition party.
The minister spoke while addressing journalists after inspecting the Interchange bridge and road linking Gwarinpa with Jahi and direct to Katampe, Gishiri and Maitama.
He said, “Those that are factionalized are bound to leave the party, I’m still in PDP and you can see that not everybody has left.
“We still have good numbers and we will continue to work together and that’s what I have said to the party. Put your house in order because at the end of the day, if you don’t put your house in order, it’s the party that is losing.
“So those who are worried, we can work together to see how the party can remain a relevant opposition.”
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