The Senate has invited Service Chiefs to appear before it on Wednesday, over security challenges in the country.

Chairman, Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions, Adetokunbo Abiru, made this known while briefing newsmen on why the interface between the committee and the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Olayemi Cardoso was postponed.

Abiru said the planned interface with Cardoso was shifted to Friday, since Wednesday and Thursday had been slated for grilling of the service chiefs.

He said after waiting for close to two hours for the CBN governor on the planned interface, they have resolved to postpone it to Friday, by 9:00 a.m prompt.

According to him, the postponement of the interface between the committee and the CBN governor arose from the fact that he, and other managers of the nation’s economy have been interfacing with the House of Representatives since morning without knowing when exactly the session will end.

In his words, they would have fixed Wednesday or Thursday as new day for the interface but the senate as a whole, has fixed the two days for very critical and constructive engagement with the service chiefs.
Earlier, the senate had over two hours of  closed-door session, after which it considered a motion from Sen. Ahmad Lawan on the demise of Sen. Bukar Ibrahim, by observing a minute silence for the deceased.

The upper chamber raised a nine-man delegation for condolence visit to the  Government of Yobe and family of the deceased.

The delegation would be led by Sen. Adamu Aliero ( PDP-Kebbi).