Tuesday, 20 May 2014

NIGERIAN SENATE APPROVES EXTENSION OF EMERGENCY RULE IN YOBE, ADAMAWA & BORNO STATES.



The Nigerian Senate today, approved the extension of partial state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states.
Moving the motion for the extension, Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba attached eight conditions.
The senate resolved that the Ministers of Police Affairs and Defence, as well as Service Chiefs, National Security Adviser and Director General of State Security Services brief them on a monthly basis, progress made in combating  insurgency in the affected states. 

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media, Information and Public Affairs, Eyinnaya Abaribe said the Senate urged the federal government to partner with the state governors to come up with an economic Marshall plan to cater for the critical infrastructure in the three affected states. 

The Senate also urged the federal government to carry out special recruitment into the armed forces of screened youths particularly the civilian JTF, who would be redeployed in the troubled zones to strengthen the troops. The Senate however commended the support of the international community in the current effort to rescue of the abducted Chibok students.

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