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Insecurity: Senate Summons Finance Minister, Army Chief over Funding


By Deji Elumoye
The Senate Thursday summoned the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed; the Director General of the Budget Office, Ben Akabueze; and the Chief of Army Staff (CAS), Lt. General Attahiru Ibrahim, to appear before it next Tuesday for proper briefing about financial releases since 2019 to the Nigerian military to fight security problems in the country.
The invitees are to appear before the Senate Committee on Army to explain details of the funds so far released to the Nigerian Army to fight insurgency, banditry and other forms of insecurity, from 2019 till date.
The Chairman of the committee, Senator Ali Ndume, stated this during a meeting with top officials of the Federal Ministry of Finance. ....

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Senate summons finance minister, Army chief over security votes


Ndume expressed disappointment that the Minister shunned the invitation of the panel despite the importance of the issue at stake.
He said, “Honestly, we are not happy that the Minister of Finance is not here today despite the fact that she was duly invited and she knew the importance of the issue we invited her to discuss with us.
“There is nothing that is more important that she could be attending to than the serious problem of insecurity all over Nigeria at the moment.
“We were blaming the military but the soldiers are claiming that they have no equipment, arms and ammunition to work with because there was no money to buy them. ....

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Defence budget: Senate summons finance minister, army chief


Defence budget: Senate summons finance minister, army chief
Defence budget: Senate summons finance minister, army chief
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Determined to get to the root of raging insurgency and banditry despite huge budgetary provision to combat insecurity, the Senate Committee on Army has summoned the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, the Director-General of the Budget Office, Ben Akabueze, and the Chief of Army Staff, Attahiru Ibrahim, to appear before it next Tuesday.
Senator representing Borno South and Chairman of the Committee, Ali Ndume, vowed that Nigerians deserve to know details of public funds so far released to the Nigerian Army to fight insurgency, banditry and other forms of insecurity, from 2019 till date. ....

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