The meeting which held behind closed was said to have been at the instance of the Principal officers of the National Assembly.
But speaking with newsmen after the meeting, Senate President Saraki, said the President briefs the principal officers of his planned response to halt the security challenges
Saraki, while commiserating with the affected all families, said the National Assembly leadership will also pay a visit to Plateau state
“it is our own intention to also go and pay our own condolence visit to the people of Plateau.”
“Our general appeal at the end of the day is that we all live together in peace and harmony and we will continue to do our best to see that this kind of thing does not happen again.
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, also confirmed that President Buhari is restructuring the security system to deal with the issues.
According to him” The president has taken enough steps, these are security issues, there are not matters that you can discuss but he has told us what he is doing, the reorganization that he plans to put in place to ensure that this don’t happen.”
“He has briefed us on what he saw first hand when he visited Plateau yesterday and measures he is putting in place to ensure that we do not have a relapse or a recurrence.
“These are very sober moments for all of us in a situation where people in hundreds are continued to be killed and we can no longer tolerate this kind of situation as a government. Whatever it is we must not loose the fight against violence because we can’t loose that fight and still keep our civilization.
“If you go to the north east you can see the level of devastation caused by Boko Haram everything resembling progress from schools to hospitals to government institutions, everything has been pulled down. And we don’t want a replication of this all over the country.
“My advise to our people not just Plateau State, Benue, Zamfara, Taraba virtually some communities faced with this situation especially in the north, I think the issue of securing our communities, living in peace must be taken as a project, is something each and everyone of us must invest in whether as traditional rulers, as community leaders, councilors, chairmen, all strata of society must invest in peace building.
He noted that this “ is is the only way we can live in a secure community and ensure that we progress as a country.”
