Insecurity: Reps announce date for security summit, call for memoranda
In 2018, the Senate had a summit on security and another was held 14 months later in 2019.
An ad-hoc committee of the
House of Representatives on national security has called for the submission of memoranda on a planned security summit. The four-day summit has been scheduled for May 24 to 28.
According to a statement by the Clerk of the House of Representatives, Chinedu Akubueze, the deadline for submission is May 20.
The Special Ad Hoc Committee on National Security was constituted by the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, on March 17.
According to the statement, memoranda should be solution-focused with emphasis on “local and community level security options, strategic kinetic national security, and non-military and non-kinetic security.”