{"id":146948,"date":"2025-01-20T12:49:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T11:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/reps-committee-decries-zero-capital-release-for-counter-terrorism-in-2023-2024"},"modified":"2025-01-29T23:09:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T22:09:18","slug":"reps-committee-decries-zero-capital-release-for-counter-terrorism-in-2023-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/reps-committee-decries-zero-capital-release-for-counter-terrorism-in-2023-2024","title":{"rendered":"Reps Committee decries zero capital release for counter terrorism in 2023, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The House of Representatives Committee on National Security and Intelligence has lamented that the National Centre for Counter-Terrorism has not received any capital release since 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Its Chairman, Ahmed Satomi made this known on Monday in Abuja at the budget defence meeting with the agencies under the committee\u2019s oversight jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was not encouraging to observe that the frontline agencies saddled with statutory responsibilities of countering violent extremism, terrorism, \u2018illicit flow of small arms and light weapons, intelligence gathering and analysis, maintenance of national security and ensuring the provision of safe, secure and efficient air transportation for the president, vice president and other notable government officials are negligibly funded.<\/p>\n<p>The chairman emphasised that the total allocation of N595,024,943,368 billion to the sub-sector in the 2025 budget was inadequate.<\/p>\n<p>Satomi stressed that in the 2025 budget, the defence and security sector was allocated N4.91 trillion, thus underscoring the priority accorded to security in the 2025 budget.<\/p>\n<p>Satomi said: \u201cFor this laudable allocation, may I, however, note that the intelligence subsector appears to be grossly underfunded going by the total allocation of N595,024,943,368 billion to the subsector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of which proposed capital expenditure allocation is N274,550,298,453.00, overhead allocation Is N107,963,187,783 while allocation to personnel expenditure for the entire intelligence sector is N212,511,457,132 billion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoing by the submissions before the committee, it is heartbreaking that an agency like the National Centre for Counter-Terrorism has not gotten any capital release for years 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe National Institute for Security Studies, NISS and the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons, NCCSSALW, are yet to receive a single kobo for their Capital projects in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Capital releases to the DSS and NIA are insufficient to motivate these agencies to work optimally to deliver on their critical mandates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Satomi called on President Bola Tinubu to intervene for an increase in the allocations to the agencies in the intelligence sector and also direct the Minister of Finance to as a matter of national security, prioritize the full release of all outstanding 2024 budget allocations to the intelligence agencies and sustain the practice of prompt releases to them going forward.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The House of Representatives Committee on National Security and Intelligence has lamented that the National Centre for Counter-Terrorism has not received any capital release since 2023. Its Chairman, Ahmed Satomi made this known on Monday in Abuja at the budget defence meeting with the agencies under the committee\u2019s oversight jurisdiction. 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