The House of Representatives on Wednesday stepped down an amendment to a motion on insecurity in Kastina state seeking to invite foreign mercenaries to help fight insecurity.
This is also as the House urged the Federal Government and relevant security agencies to immediately deploy additional security personnel to Bakori/ Danja Federal Constituency to protect the lives and properties of the residents.
The House further resolved that the leadership will meet with the president and take the discuss on insecurity further.
They also resolved to Investigate into the attacks to bring the perpetrators to justice and prevent future occurrences.
The amendment made by Hon Ahmed Jaha followed an urgent motion tittled ” “The Issue of Banditry Affecting the Good People Of Bakorydanja Federal Consistency of Katsina State “brought on the floor of the House on Wednesday during plenary by Hon. Abdullahi Dabai.
According to Jaha, efforts by security agencies over the years is not yielding much result hence the need for Nigeria to engage foreign mercenaries to help fight insecurity across the country.
“When we had insecurity in the northeast between 2020 we had not hunger in the country. When bandits realized that they promote hunger than insecurity they expanded their operations to the south east and south west .
“Since you are facing insurgency ,they is nothing wrong in inviting other countries to our aid, Nigeria is not as powerful and influential as Ukraine, Russia there is nothing wrong in bringing in machineries to clear our land of insecurity if not the hunger we faced this year will be worst next year, their strategies now is attacking farmers from going to their farm land . We commend our security agencies, they have done well but we need help.
“We deserve to know the truth so we know what to relay to our constituents.”
Also debating on the motion, Hon Abbas Adigun advocated that security officers welfare should be critically looked into and needed support should be provided to enhance their performance. He however opposed the call for foreign mercenaries adding that it is an embarrassment to the country.
”We need to increase the capacity of our security agencies. We need to look into the welfare of our security agencies.when they go our there is it a 50 percent chances they come back so what happened to their families.
“They need modern equipments to face the insurgents, do we have all they need to effectively fight them ? No. In the 9th Assembly all we discussed to do about security non was done that why I don’t attend any security meeting in this assembly.
“Asking another country to send us machineries is an insult as a giant of Africa that we are , our security agencies can work with retired service chiefs to get this work done.”