The Senate has unanimously summoned the service chiefs to appear before it next week to proffer lasting solutions to the widespread insecurity in the country.
The lawmakers made the call after an emergency session on the first legislative day of the year on Tuesday.
Senator Opeyemi Bamidele raised a motion on behalf of the Senators on the security situation in the country, which led to the Senate going into an executive session.
After about two hours behind closed doors, the Senate reconvened and resolved to invite the service chiefs over the spate of insecurity in the country.
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The service chiefs included the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Musa; Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt-General Taoreed Lagbaja; Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Hassan Abubakar, and Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla.
In recent times, kidnappings and killings have been recorded from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Abuja to Mangu in Plateau State as well as other parts of the country.
The latest in the dastard act of criminals was the murder of two traditional rulers in Ekiti State — the Onimojo of Imojo-Ekiti, Oba Olatunde Olusola; and the Elesun of Esun-Ekiti, Oba David Ogunsola.
The two monarchs were killed when they were returning from a meeting in Irele-Ekiti on Monday.
