Senate President Bukola Saraki
says the upper legislative chamber will do its best on security despite the
non-cooperation of the police.
Saraki said this on Tuesday after
Tijani Kaura, senator representing Zamfara north, drew the attention of the lawmakers
to recent killings in his state.
Ibrahim Idris, inspector-general
of police (IGP), has failed to honour the invitation of the senate twice over
growing security concerns in the country.
Saraki described the case of
fresh killings in Zamfara as unfortunate.
“Again it is unfortunate of the
incident in Zamfara which is on a daily basis. It is of great concern to us,”
he said.
“We at the national assembly, we
must play our role to see what we can do to tackle this insecurity issue. It is
unfortunate as we said last time we expected the IGP here, we have given him
again till Wednesday to come here so that we can truly engage and address these
problems we are facing today in the country.
“We saw what happened in Kaduna
state some days ago and now it is Zamfara. We will do our best despite the
level of lack of cooperation but we must play our role and I can assure you
that we would do something to bring a change and make this country more
secure.”
Saraki directed that the report
on the mace invasion incident should be sent to the ethics committee to come up
with recommendations.
“Following the incident of the
mace invasion in the senate, one of the resolutions was that the management
would do a report to fill roles that were played and what led to the invasion,”
the senate president said.
“The report has been ready and
submitted and I think the report should go to the committee on ethics for them
to review it and make their recommendations to us.”
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