Despite a declaration of national security emergency in Nigeria, President Bola Tinubu has written the Senate, seeking approval to deploy to the Republic of Benin for combat operations in another country.
The letter was read on Tuesday by the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, during plenary.
According to the President, the letter, which was in sequel to section 5(5) of 1999 Constitution as amended, also became imperative following the need for peacekeeping as a sister country.
According to Tinubu, deploying the troop was as a result of a request by the Republic of Benin for assistance and considering the close ties of friendship and brotherhood.
But this comes when Nigeria needs every boot on the ground to fight worsening insecurity and mass killings and kidnapping of citizens by terrorists.
On Sunday morning, soldiers operating under the “Military Committee for Refoundation”, led by Lt Col Pascal Tigri, briefly seized the state television station in Cotonou on Sunday, announcing the overthrow of President Patrice Talon’s administration.
However, the coup was quelled by the intervention of fighter jets and troops deployed in the neighbouring country by President Tinubu.
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