Insecurity: Senate begins meeting with security chiefs on Wednesday, CBN Gov. on Fri

Senate has disclosed that the security chiefs summoned last week over the rising insecurity will be grilled tomorrow (Wednesday) and Thursday to find a way forward to the menace of criminals in the country.

Chairman, Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions, Senator Adetokunbo Abiru (APC Lagos East), who dropped the hint on Tuesday, also announced that the planned interface with the CBN Governor, Olayemi Cardoso, had been shifted to Friday due to the meeting with the security chiefs.

The Senate had by its resolution on Tuesday last week, summoned the security chiefs to appear before it in plenary for required explanations on worsening security situation in the country, just as its Committee on Banking , summoned the CBN Governor to appear before it on Tuesday on the state of the nation’s economy and free flow of the Naira.

Members of the  committee in line with the  resolution, gathered in Room 211, venue of the planned interface with the CBN governor  from 3:00pm to 4:30pm before resolving to postpone it to Friday  this week.

Announcing the postponement, the chairman of the committee, Senator Abiru said: “After waiting for close to two hours for the CBN governor on the planned interface , we have resolved to postpone it to Friday this week by 9:00am prompt.

“Postponement of the interface between our committee and the CBN Governor, arose from the fact that he and other managers of the nation’s economy, have been interfacing with our colleagues in the House of Representatives since morning without knowing when exactly, the session would end.

“We would have fixed Wednesday or Thursday this week as new day for the interface but the Senate as a whole, has fixed the two days, for very critical and constructive engagement with the Service Chiefs.

“This made us to eventually settled for Friday this week for interface with the CBN Governor by 9: 00am prompt.

“Communication to this effect, would be forwarded to the CBN Governor today (Tuesday) and possibly other government officials managing the economy”.