The Senate has held the country's security forces accountable for the recent suicide attack in Gwoza, Borno State, citing their own intelligence failures. During a plenary discussion on the matter on Wednesday, the parliamentarians came to some of these conclusions.
Godswill Akpabio, the president of the Senate, supported the viewpoint during the discussion on the suicide bombings that took place over the weekend. Ali Ndume, the Senate's chief whip and the debate's sponsor, named the Mandara Mountains, Sambisa Forest, and the Lake Chad region as the last bastions of terrorists.
After the discussion, the legislators encouraged the federal government to order the military to use cutting-edge technology and scientific tactics in place of more traditional methods of combating insurgencies and other crimes.
The senators noted that terrorists continued to adopt unconventional techniques to kill Nigerians and destroy their means of subsistence, suggesting that traditional methods of battling insurgency, such as the deployment of troops, were failing.
Meanwhile, 31 people have died as a result of the suicide bombing in the Borno State district of Gwoza on Saturday, according to information released by Nigeria's vice president, Kashim Shettima, on Monday.
Shettima reports that of the 42 patients admitted to the specialized hospital, 14 had been treated and released. 26 people are still undergoing treatment, according to the vice president. Shettima expressed her condolences to the families of those slain by the several blasts, and she personally donated to all of the deceased.
Additionally, he sent Borno State and the people of Gwoza President Bola Tinubu's sympathies. The Vice President was accompanied by the Director General of NEMA, Baba Ahmed Jidda, the former Nigerian Ambassador to China, Senator Abubakar Kyari, the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Ali Ndume, the Deputy Governor of Borno State, and other government officials.