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<p>By Yusuf Danjuma Yunusa</p>
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<p>The Senate on Tuesday urged President Bola Tinubu to approve the recruitment of 100,000 fresh military personnel to confront insurgency, banditry and the rising wave of school abductions across the country.</p><div class="w1QfCGy5" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>Lawmakers also demanded a full investigation into the Safe School Programme, questioning how funds allocated to the initiative were spent despite repeated attacks on educational institutions.</p>
<p>Their concerns were provoked by the attack on Government Girls’ Secondary School, Maga, in Kebbi State, where gunmen reportedly killed a vice principal and abducted 25 students.</p>
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<p>The debate followed additional prayers raised by Senator Adams Oshiomhole (Edo North) during plenary, which triggered a heated session on Nigeria’s worsening security situation.</p>
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<p>Senate President Godswill Akpabio presided over the sitting and later moved the chamber into a closed-door meeting to discuss classified details.</p>
<p>Oshiomhole, while leading the call for massive recruitment and a security audit, warned that the scale of insecurity required a strategic expansion of the armed forces.</p>
<p>He said, “I urge the President and the armed forces to recruit an additional 100,000 military personnel so we can have enough men and women in our troops. It is also another way to create employment for our youthful population.”</p>
<p>He also demanded answers on the Safe School funds.</p>
<p>“People have turned our security into a business. We should not monetise the death of our people by those living. What happened to the money earmarked for the Safe School Programme?”</p>
<p>Oshiomhole pressed further for a Senate-led probe and enhanced technological capacity for security agencies.</p>
<p>“Again, I urge the FG and the relevant Senate committees to probe the funds appropriated for the Safe School Programme.</p>
<p>&#8220;I call on the military to deploy the use of technology and tracking devices to be able to track these criminals,” he urged.</p>
<p>His additional prayer was unanimously seconded and adopted by lawmakers across party lines.</p>
<p>Reacting, Senate President Godswill Akpabio endorsed the call for 100,000 new troops and supported the probe of the Safe School Programme.</p>
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