In a move that lawmakers described as unprecedented in recent years, the House suspended all routine legislative business and dedicated a three-day special session to interrogate the national security situation. It also attended to other national issues. Here are some of the issues:
Reps hold special session to interrogate nation’s unabating insecurity
The 360-member House set aside three legislative days to mirror the nation’s security challenges and made some recommendations on how to overcome the menace.
Opening the session on Tuesday, Speaker Abbas Tajudeen said the last few weeks had exposed deep vulnerabilities in Nigeria’s security architecture. He pointed to coordinated attacks on rural communities, targeted killings, highway abductions and the displacement of entire settlements as evidence of a crisis that had become too dangerous to ignore.
“This moment requires calm heads, careful judgement and thoughtful action,” he told colleagues. “There must be no rush or sensational responses.”
Over the course of the session, lawmakers dissected structural problems in the armed
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