Reps Accuse Nigeria’s Neighbours Of Aiding Insecurity

The House of Representatives has accused some of Nigeria’s neighbours of complicity in the rising cases of insecurity within the country.
It also gave a hint of a possible investigation into the activities of some of these nations with regards to allegations that they were sponsoring criminals wreaking havoc across the nation.
This was part of issues discussed at a closed-door meeting held between the lawmakers, service chiefs and the Inspector-General of Police, in Abuja, yesterday.
Lawmakers who attended the meeting described the three-hour long meeting as “extensive.”
The Chairman, House Committee on Defence, Mr Babajimi Benson, who was flanked by the chairmen and deputy chairmen of other security-related committees, spoke to reporters after the meeting.
Benson said, “It (the meeting) went very well. We got first-hand information on what is going on and what the issues are. We are going to report back to parliament what he heard from the service chiefs.”
Asked if the lawmakers were satisfied with the briefing, they received from the service chiefs, he said, “We were to a large extent; satisfied with what they said. Like I said, we are also going to table what they said before parliament.”
The chairman declined going into the details of what transpired behind closed doors, saying, “Military issues are not things we should discuss in public but they raised a lot of issues that we must all sit down as Nigerians and discuss.”
He, however, said, “One of them (issues) is that, there is probably an international dimension to what we see. There is ISIS, there is ISWAP. These are things that we need to discuss in a very classified manner.