President Bola Tinubu has formally sought the approval of the Senate to deploy Nigerian troops in the Benin Republic to help protect the neighbouring country’s democratic institutions.
In a letter just read to senators by the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, President Tinubu said the troops, deployed on a Peace mission, was in compliance with Section 5(4) Part II of the 1999 Constitution in due consultations with the National Defence Council.
Tinubu explained that the deployment was in response to a request made by the Republic of Benin in the wake of the attempted military coup there over the weekend.
Tinubu’s letter was referred to the Committee of the Whole for immediate action.
GISTSMATE MEDIA earlier reported that President Tinubu commended the gallantry of Nigeria’s military on Sunday for responding swiftly to the request by the Government of Benin Republic to save its 35-year-old democracy from coup plotters who struck on Sunday.
Acting on two separate requests from the Government of Benin, President Tinubu first ordered Nigerian Air Force fighter jets to enter the country and take over the airspace to help dislodge the coup plotters from the National TV and a military camp where they had regrouped.
The Republic of Benin, through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a Note Verbal, requested immediate Nigerian air support “in view of the urgency and seriousness of the situation and to safeguard the constitutional order, protect national institutions and ensure the security of the population.”
In the second request, the authorities in Benin requested the deployment of Nigerian Air Force assets within Beninoise airspace for surveillance and rapid intervention operations under Benin-led coordination.
The Benin government also requested Nigerian ground forces, “strictly for missions approved by the Beninese Command authority in support of the protection of constitutional institutions and the containment of armed Groups.”
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