The security chiefs have finally appeared at an interactive session of the House of Representatives.
Lawmakers in the lower legislative chamber had invited the security chiefs — Christopher Musa (Chief of Defence Staff), Taoreed Lagbaja (Chief of Army Staff), Emmanuel Ogalla (Chief of Naval Staff), Hassan Abubakar (Chief of Air Staff), and Kayode Egbetokun (Inspector-General of Police) — to brief them on the security situation in the country.
The House had on Thursday, November 16, rejected representatives of the service chiefs during plenary.
It scheduled a sectoral debate with the security chiefs as it plans to do with other sectors of the country.
The lawmakers rejected the representation of the security heads and instead postponed the session, following a constitutional point of order by the Deputy Speaker, Benjamin Kalu.
The session was thereafter postponed to Tuesday, November 21, as the House insisted that the service chiefs must appear at the debate.
Meanwhile, at the session on Tuesday, a lawmaker from Borno state, Ahmed Jaha moved a motion that the debate be done under executive session because it may be dangerous to discuss security issues in public.
His motion will evoke inharmonious responses from lawmakers.
The speaker of the house, Tajudeen Abbas, however, said he had spoken with the service chiefs who assured that they would avoid touching on sensitive security issues during the debate.
The debate went in two parts — the open session and a closed, executive session.
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