Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of the House of Representatives on Wednesday harped on the need for a total reform and overhaul of our internal security architecture which has failed to address the spate of insecurity in the land.
Dogara gave the charge while giving update on the meeting held at the instance of Senate President Bukola Saraki with President Muhammadu Buhari.
“Today, I and President of the Senate, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, met with President Muhammadu Buhari over the #Plateau violence.
“We requested for the meeting in order to hear from the President the steps and measures he is taken to end the orgy of killings and violence not only on the Plateau but in other parts of the country.
“The President briefed us on what he saw first-hand when he visited Plateau state on Tuesday and the measures he is putting in place to forestall recurrence.
“The President has taken enough steps and told us what he is doing especially the reorganization that he plans to put in place to ensure that
this doesn’t happen again.
“We also used the opportunity to advise the President on other measures and actions that will help bring lasting peace in our country in accordance with the resolutions passed at the joint emergency closed-door session of the National Assembly held some weeks ago.
“These are very sober moments for all us. In a situation where people, in hundreds continued to be killed, we can no longer tolerate this kind of
situation as a government.
“We call on all relevant government agencies to quickly provide emergency relief services to people in the affected areas.
“The House of Representatives and indeed the National Assembly will continue to work towards providing all necessary legislative backing to the security agencies more especially funding needed to reform and equip our armed forces to tackle the prevailing security challenges confronting us as a nation.
“I am also restating my earlier call for a total reform and overhaul of our internal security architecture which has failed to address the spate of insecurity in the land.
“I want to seize this opportunity to once again offer our condolences to families of victims of violence in Zamfara, Benue, Plateau, Taraba,
Adamawa, Kaduna Nasarawa, Borno, Yobe and other places and urge our citizens to embrace peace without which there can be no meaningful
development,” Dogara said in the statement.
