The House of Representatives Committee on National Security and Intelligence, on Monday, decried the poor funding of the Nation’s security and intelligence sector and urged President Bola Tinubu to redress the anomaly for the national interest.
Speaking at the budget defence session of Agencies under the office of the National Security Adviser, NSA, in Abuja, the Chairman of the Committee, Ahmed Satomi appealed to President Tinubu to direct the Minister of Finance to ensure the immediate full release of the 2024 capital allocation to the security and intelligence sector in the overall interest of the nation’s security.
Satomi complained that it was regrettable that capital allocation to some of the intelligence agencies has not been released, while releases to others have not been encouraging.
According to the lawmaker, even though there was an appreciable allocation to the security sector, the intelligence subsector had been grossly underfunded, saying that the committee would…
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