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September 30, 2019
The Chairman, House ofRepresentatives Committee on Defence, Representative  Babajimi Benson hasvowed to work with other stakeholders to ensure accountability and caution ingovernment spending in the area of security.
Benson in a statement pledged thecommittee’s readiness to support all security agencies to achieve theirmandates.
The Chairman, who said that therewere huge, tasks before the committee and the security agencies under itssupervision, called on them to live up to the expectations of Nigerians. Hesaid the need to protect life and property in the country could not beoveremphasized.
The lawmaker also pledged that thecommittee would follow up the decision of the House to provide special fund tobe approved by the National Assembly. This resolution, he said, followedrevelations from a security meeting between the leadership of the House and theService Chiefs, on September 23.