NSA, SGF, Wike to grace NUJ security summit Feb 22

As service chiefs appear before the Senate today over the rising case of insecurity in the country, any service chief, who fails to deliver will be shown the door, the red chamber has threatened.

  
The essence of the meeting is to hear from them why insecurity, despite the huge vote to tackle the menace, continues to thrive. Also, the National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu; Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), George Akume and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, are expected to grace a national security conference in Abuja on Thursday, February 22.
  
Speaking with The Guardian in Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State, Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate, Peter Nwebonyi (Ebonyi North), declared that it would not be business-as-usual for the security chiefs.  
 
Nwebonyi, who expressed worry over the rising insecurity in the country, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), maintained that “Nigerians are tired of stories;” hence, any security chief that cannot give Nigerians what they want would be thrown out.
  
The Deputy Chief Whip assured Nigerians that President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet administration and the National Assembly were doing everything possible to nip insecurity in the bud.  
  
On the untold hardship in the land, the senator pleaded with Nigerians to tarry a while, that very soon, they would begin to see the positive effect of the 2024 budget, which would correct the anomalies in terms of infrastructure, human capital development, social welfare and others. He urged leaders and followers to add other skills and farming to their sources of income for betterment of society.

THE security summit, organised by Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), in partnership with New National Star Newspaper, with the theme, ‘National Security and Development’, will have Chairman of Police Service Commission (PSC), Dr Solomon Arase, as the Guest Speaker.
  
He will speak on ‘Citizen Engagement in the Fight against Crime and Criminalities in Nigeria’.   During a briefing, yesterday, at the NUJ National Headquarters in Abuja, the

Managing Director/ Editor-in-Chief of  New National Star, Obinna Nwachukwu, said the conference would address the growing insecurity in the country.

“In more than a decade now, security has become a major issue in Nigeria. Nowhere is safe. Even Abuja, the nation’s capital, is not safe like before. 
  
“But one thing is clear, although insecurity is everywhere in the country, each region/zone has its own peculiar security issues. In the South South, it is crude oil theft, oil bunkering and sea pirates. In the South East, it is the menace of the now infamous unknown gunmen. In the North East is Boko Haram terrorism, North West is illegal oil mining, while North Central is farmers/herders crisis. However, in all these zones, armed robbery, kidnapping and murder are common.”
  
The summit, which will take place at NAF Conference Centre, Abuja, by 9am, is expected to have in attendance heads of all security agencies and other critical security stakeholders. NUJ National President, Chris Isiguzor, noted that security is everybody’s business; hence, everybody must be involved in one way or another.