The Senate has expeditiously approved the request by President Bola Tinubu for the deployment of Nigerian troops to the Republic of Benin for a peace mission.
According to the Senate, confirming and approving President Tinubu’s decision to deploy troops to the neighbouring Republic of Benin as part of a peace mission a failed coup attempt against President Patrice Talon was to save unnecessary çriminality and disruption of property.
The Senate resolved into the Committee of the Whole when it received a letter from the President requesting approval, just as the Senate leader, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, APC, Ekiti Central, moved that the Senate should discuss the letter.
Thereafter, they resolved into the Committee of the Whole to discuss the urgent request.
The President in the letter written to the Senate seeking for its consent said that deploying the troops was as a result of a request by the Benin Republic for assistance and considering the close ties of friendship and brotherhood.
However, this move by the President and seconded by the Senate has been subjected to public critic and a call for reversal due to the insecurity ravaging the Nigerian nation.
Is this the right move by the Nigerian leader, at a time where security agencies in the country are equally looking for recruitment to help curtail the menace of insecurity?
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