Insecurity: Reps To Summon President Buhari Over Borno Killings

Members of the House of Representatives were divided at Tuesday plenary on whether or not to invite President Muhammadu Buhari to appear before them and offer explanation on the true security situation of the country.

Insecurity: Reps To Summon President Buhari Over Borno Killings
House of Representatives

The House of Representatives has passed a resolution to invite President Muhammadu Buhari, to brief the house on the true state of security in Nigeria.

The decision to summon President Buhari was taken on Tuesday’s plenary.

The House considered a motion moved by members from Borno State on the recent massacre of 43 rice farmers in the state by Boko Haram insurgents.

The debate became rowdy after the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, said it would be inappropriate to invite Buhari to disclose the actions being taken towards handling the security situation in the country.

Gbajabiamila described it as counter-productive.

Some members of the House opposed the Speaker’s position and this descended into a rowdy debate.

The House then went into an executive session to resolve the matter.

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After the executive session which was held behind closed doors, the House resumed and Representative Ahmed Jaha who is one of the sponsors of the motion moved an amendment to invite the President to brief on the security situation in the country, saying that security issues can’t be discussed openly, pleading for the understanding of his colleagues not to summon the president.

His contribution was however greeted with a thunderous shout of No.

''Seeing the rising tension and the determination of the lawmakers, the Speaker suddenly called for executive session to resolve the matter.

“Hon. Colleagues, I am a little bit disappointed with a lot of these no, no.

“This is not the spirit with which we started this 9th assembly.

“We will go into executive session to resolve this matter”, Gbajabiamila said

His amendment was seconded and unanimously adopted.

No date was however announced for the invitation.