Senator Jimoh Ibrahim has proposed the use of technology in the fight against insecurity.

He revealed that after installing an app on his phone, he detected over 277 guns around the Senate chamber.

Senator Jimoh made this known on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday, July 3, during his comment on a motion raised by Senator Ali Ndume of Borno South regarding the recent bombings in the North-East State.

“I don’t want to take much of your time but I will say clearly that it costs nothing for the intelligent army to get devices on their phones to know where these notorious criminals live,” the lawmaker representing Ondo South said.

“As I am here, I check my phone regularly and I know the number of guns that are very close to me here. This is just less than one thousand installations. Within us now, there are over 277 guns around here just because an armoury is close to this place.”

When Senate President Godswill Akpabio asked him, “Of the 277 guns around you here, do you know how many of them have bullets inside?” the lawmaker responded saying, since there is an armoury close to the National Assembly, the senators were safe.

Speaking on the military using technology in the fight against insurgency, the lawmaker said,

“So, what I am saying? We can use technology, just like distinguished Senator Ndume had said, to deploy technology rather than using soldiers,” he said.

“I want to say very clearly that the military should stop using unconventional strategies to fight insurgency in Nigeria. There is a distinction between unconventional and conventional strategy. We need to use conventional strategy to fight unconventional war. Boko Haram is an unconventional war,” Senator Jimoh argued.

“We are all aware of what happened in Kenya. We cannot close our eyes, we need to wake up. So, I will finally suggest to you, Mr Senate President, and my distinguished colleagues, that this Senate under your leadership, sir, must have a closed-door meeting for one day and then use that whole day to discuss security matters. Our lives are very important.”

Regarding the Gwoza suicide bombing in Borno State, Senator Jimoh expressed sadness at the incident.

“Living with insecurity cannot be the only way to understand security. We should not get to that,” he said, wondering: “How can you be going to a wedding and somebody just put a bomb to attack you and people started dying? It is uncalled for; it is rejected in the totality of its formulation.”