- The Senate committee chairman has revealed a solution to the herdsmen-farmers crisis in Benue
- He said the needed solution to the crisis can be provided by the Navy Special Forces
- He promised that his committee will table its proposal to adopt the Navy Special Forces before the House
Senator Isah Misau, the chairman, Senate committee on Navy said the Navy Special Forces would provide the needed solution to the herdsmen-farmers crisis in Benue state.
Misau said the committee is planning to propose the adoption of Special Forces before the general House, Vanguard reports.
NAIJ.com gathered that the Senator said this during an oversight visit of members of the committee to the Western Naval Command of the Nigerian Navy and other units and formations under it.
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The Navy Special Forces, known as Special Boat Service (SBS) are a team of small and highly trained personnel meant for special operations that are conducted in hostile and politically sensitive environment.
It is predominantly focused on littoral and riverine operations, including reconnaissance and surveillance, as well as covert operations in advance of an amphibious assault.
The SBS had reportedly trained the Nigerian Army tactical warfare, the Ghanian forces and the Marine Police.
After watching a display by the Special Forces, at SBS training ground in Ojo, Misau said: “As a committee, we have been speaking with the commander, SBS and the committee has collected some of the papers he brought from Jordan. We are interested in what he said. We were made to understand that if we have 30 of them (Special Forces) in Benue, they can solve the problem of herdsmen crisis.
"We have solution for the Benue crisis in the Navy. We are having enormous challenges in the Niger Delta, Benue, Taraba, Plateau and Adamawa, but with the Special Forces I think we can achieve so much.
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"We will put it to the leadership of the Senate so that they can tell the President that the solution is at hand.”
NAIJ.com previously reported that Human Right Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) attacked the minister of defence, Brig. Gen. Munir Dan-Ali (retd.), for comment allegedly supporting the violent attacks perpetrated by killer herdsmen.
The National Coordinator of the group, Emmanuel Onwubiko said a comment by the minister giving reasons for the attacks on farming communities by suspected armed herdsmen is a subtle justification for the criminal attacks by suspected armed herdsmen on farming communities.
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Source: Naija.ng