President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday met behind closed doors with the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan at the State House, Abuja on Sunday.
The meeting was centred on the security challenges in the country, performance of the Service Chiefs, and the crisis tearing the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, apart.
Speaking to journalists after the meeting the president of The Senate said that he briefed the President on the myriads of problems security-wise that have bedevilled the country
According to him “you know that the country is facing many serious and deep security challenges and I have come to meet with Mr President to discuss with him what we have discussed in the Senate previously that we should do whatever it will take to improve the security situation in the country”.
” And we believe that the Senate and the national assembly is positively disposed to receiving any supplementary budgets proposed to address the fundamental needs of the security agencies in the country so that we will be able to empower them to enable them to fight the boko Haram in the north east boundary and other security challenges across the country.”
” Secondly in the Senate particularly, we believe that we need to provide more resources for recruitment by security agencies, the army, the navy, the air Force, the police, they immigration, the paramilitary generally needs to also have more manpower and personnel and this is not something that we can get on a platter of gold whoever wants to make an omelette must break an egg”.
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