IGP Adamu Meets Senate Over Insecurity

The Inspector General of Police, Mohammad Adamu, has honoured Senate’s invitation to appear before the lawmakers to answer questions on worsening insecurity in the country.

This comes as Nigeria’s service chiefs are currently meeting behind-closed-doors with the House of Representatives joint committees on Navy, Army, Police, Air force and Security and Intelligence.

IGP Adamu will be briefing lawmakers on the floor of the Senate on the challenges facing the police.

The upper legislative chamber had summoned Adamu following outcry on worsening kidnappings, banditry and killings in parts of the country.

THE WHISTLER had reported that the senators during a plenary session last week, identified community policing and state police as the panacea to the nation’s insecurity, while also calling for restructuring of the security architecture in the country.

The Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, had during the plenary called on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign his office as had allegedly run out of ideas to address the country’s security challenges.

Abaribe’s call for Buhari’s resignation was believed to have prompted the president to summon a National Security Council meeting at the State House.

Buhari had also afterwards met with the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, and the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, following the calls for him to sack the service chiefs.