The Chairman of the House Committee on Internal Security, Garba Muhammad, has raised serious concerns over the growing insecurity within the National Assembly complex, warning that the trend poses a direct threat to Nigeria’s democracy and legislative stability if urgent measures are not taken.
Mr Muhammad made the remarks in his opening speech on Tuesday during a public hearing on a bill seeking to establish a Legislative Security Directorate, a proposed independent security framework to professionalise and strengthen internal security operations in the National Assembly.
The bill, titled “A Bill for an Act to provide for the Establishment and the Functions of the Legislative Security Directorate in the National Assembly; to provide for the Qualification and Condition of Service of the Sergeant-at-Arms and other Personnel of the Directorate,” is being
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