Abuja: The Senate on Wednesday adopted the interim report of its Ad hoc Committee on National Security Summit.
The sessions, held at selected centres across the country’s six geopolitical zones, served as a guide to the planned January 2026 National Security Summit.
This followed the Chairman and Leader of the Senate, Opeyemi Bamidele, presenting and considering the report during plenary.
The report called for a review of the country’s security architecture, with the focus on fighting insecurity being “proactive rather than reactive.”
Presenting the report, Bamidele said that participants at the summit listed state police, deployment of modern technology in combating terrorism, kidnapping/banditry, prosecution of terror sponsors and ranching of cattle among strong actions to be taken in the war against insecurity.
The report noted that the current practice, in which security agencies scramble for solutions after a security breach, does not provide the citizenry with any sense of safety.
The report recommended improved inter-agency collaboration by all security agencies in intelligence gathering, sharing and eventual counter-terrorism operations.
“Participants called for a halt in the practice of animals roaming communities and suggested ranching as a solution to reduce frequent clashes between farm owners and armed herders,” it stated.
The report added that communities must have a right of access to their ancestral lands, amid the growing trend of foreigners invading and occupying land, displacing the inhabitants.
To address some of the root causes of insecurity, the report called for the Federal Government to create a special fund to tackle unemployment, poverty, corruption, drug abuse, hunger, illiteracy, and radicalism.
It also recommended the establishment of inter-religious and ethnic bodies in all communities to promote harmony among people of different leanings, as well as empowering traditional rulers to function fully as leaders in rural settings.
The report also touched on mining control and review of outdated border laws to regulate illegal migration and other activities posing a danger to security.
NAN reports that the recommendations were adopted by the lawmakers without the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, calling for a debate.