Insurgency: Give new service chiefs timeline to deliver – Senate
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By Henry Umoru
THE Senate has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to as a matter of urgency, give a timeline to the new service chiefs to nip in the bud the problem of insurgency, kidnapping, armed banditry and other security challenges in the country.
Speaking with journalists yesterday in Abuja, Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Senator Ali Ndume, All Progressives Congress, APC, Borno South, said with President Buhari providing for the service chiefs all the needed tools to deliver, he should ask them to come up with a dateline of when the war would end.
2021 budget: Hold ministers accountable for poor implementation, Ndume tasks Nigerian youths 2021 budget: Hold ministers accountable for poor implementation, Ndume tasks Nigerian youths
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Senator representing Borno South, Ali Mohammed Ndume, on Thursday, tasked Nigerian youths to show more than passing interest in the implementation of the 2021 budget.
Speaking with newsmen in Abuja, the Chairman Senate Committee on Army specifically mentioned the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs as one of the intervention ministries of the federal government with adequate provisions in this year budget to mitigate the pressing needs of Nigerian youths.
He restated that over N700billion was appropriated by the National Assembly for various sectors and asked Nigerians “to follow your money.”
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Senator representing Borno South and Chairman Senate Committee on Army, Ali Ndume, has charged President Muhammadu Buhari to give the new set of Service Chiefs a timeline for them to surmount insurgency and banditry in the country.
The federal government had on Tuesday announced the appointment of new Service Chiefs with Major-General Leo Irabor, Major-General I. Attahiru, Rear Admiral A.Z Gambo and Air-Vice Marshal I.O Amao, as Chief of Defence Staff, Chief of Army Staff, Chief of Naval Staff and Chief of Air Staff, respectively.
Senator Ndume who noted that the new change in the Service Chiefs was in fulfilment of an earlier promise by President Buhari to rejig his security apparatus, however, tasked the latter to ensure that the new Service Chiefs were given a timeline to end the scary security challenge, particularly insurgency and banditry in the North East and North West.
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