PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI ATTENDS JUMA’AT PRAYER AT THE STATE HOUSE MOSQUE IN ABUJA
Pic 19. From second left: National Security Adviser, retired Brig.-Gen. Babagana Monguno; President Muhammadu Buhari; Chief of Staff, Alhaji Abba Kyari and others after the Juma’at prayers attended by President Buhari on the State House Mosque in Abuja on Friday (5/5/17).
The National Security Adviser, Maj. Gen. Babagana Monguno (Rtd) has blamed insecurity within the nation on insubordination by different safety chiefs who've ignored invites to conferences in his workplace.
Monguno made this identified throughout a closed-door assembly with Senators on the proliferation of firearms, spate of killings by terrorists and kidnapping by hoodlums throughout the nation.
The NSA disclosed that the uncooperative perspective of the safety chiefs has led to lack of central coordination of different safety companies within the nation.
Vanguard gathered that senators have been instructed that the Office of the NSA, which is saddled with the accountability of coordinating different safety points and places of work, was being uncared for as a result of the workplace isn't revered by different safety companies.
The NSA, it was discovered, instructed the senators that consistent with National Security Agencies Act Cap N74 LFN 2010, his workplace had the powers to manage and coordinate different safety companies on behalf of the President, however lamented that the workplace was not revered by safety chiefs.
It was additionally gathered that Monguno significantly accused Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin, and Director-General, Department of State Services, DSS, Lawal Daura, of not honouring his invites to attend conferences presided over by him.
The NSA was mentioned to have instructed the senators that following frequent shunning of his conferences by safety chiefs, he reported the matter to President Muhammadu Buhari, who assured him that he would look into the matter, to no avail.
Against this backdrop, Monguno was mentioned to have introduced earlier than the senators, National Security Act, which ought to be amended, simply as he was mentioned to have complained of the police pressure, which requires ample coaching and skilled manpower if it should perform its accountability of offering the nation with first line safety.
Following his presentation, the Senate assured that it could provoke strikes for the Amendment of National Security Agencies Act Cap N74 LFN 2010, with a view to giving powers of management on nationwide safety over the companies on behalf of the President.
The Senate, Vanguard gathered, promised to critically take a look at the prevailing legal guidelines pertaining to the nation’s safety system, with a view to amending them the place crucial, to help within the efficient operations of safety companies within the nation.