Reps to Service Chiefs: “It is important to put our heads together to rescue our country from where we are today.”
By Emma Ogbuehi
The last has not been heard about the attack on a Kaduna-bound train by terrorists on Monday, March 28.
At least eight people were killed, many injured and one week after, the whereabouts of 168 passengers are still unknown.
On Tuesday, the leadership of the House of Representatives held a closed-door meeting with Security Chiefs over recent upsurge in insecurity across the country, especially the train terror attack and and invasion of Kaduna International Airport.
The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Lucky Irabor; Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Awwal Zubairu Gambo; Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Isiaka Amao; Director-General National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ambassador Ahmed Rufa’i Abubakar; Director-General Department of State Services (DSS), Yusuf Magaji Bichi; and Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba came for meeting.
The Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi; Director-General Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Capt. Fola Akinkuotu; and Director-General Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Musa Nuhu, also attended the meeting hosted by Speaker of the House of Reps, Femi Gbajabiamila.
The meeting scheduled to hold last week was shifted when the Service Chiefs and other invitees sent representatives, a development which the Reps rejected.
Gbajabiamiala said the meeting was to review what has happened and steps being taken by the Security Chiefs as well as what the House can do to help in achieving their mandate.
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He said: “There is no one in this room that does not mean well for this country. We must first get that. We are trying to figure out what can be done, where we have fallen short of what we are supposed to do.
“It is important to put our heads together to rescue our country from where we are today. We must also acknowledge what our men in uniforms have been able to do. But what are you doing and not doing well or what you are supposed to do that you are not doing.
“We read about contract for surveillance on the Kaduna/Abuja train line and the number of passengers on the train. We don’t want twisted records. We want to get the best out of this.”
The meeting is still going on as at the time of filing this report.
