 The Senate has sought the establishment of a permanent military and police command base in the area adjoining Shiroro and Rafael local government areas of Niger State to tackle escalating insecurity in the state. The resolution was sequeled to a point of order raised by Sen. Sani Musa at Plenary. The upper chamber also urged the Chief of Army staff and the Inspector General of Police to redesign the mode of operations of the military in the affected areas so as to curtail escalating insecurity. In addition, resolution was for the Senate to reschedule a meeting with President Mohammed de Buhari on the security situation. Raising orders 42 and 52 of the Senate's standing rules, Musa recalled that although several efforts had been made on the insecurity situation in the country, nothing had been achieved so far.