Deploy more troops against Boko Haram, Rep tells Jonathan

A member of the House of Representatives, Babatunde Adewale, (Lagos-APC), on Wednesday advised President Goodluck Jonathan to deploy more troops to states affected by insurgency.

Adewale said in Abuja that it was not conducive for the house members to discuss the extension of the state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States.

According to him, there is a provision in the Armed Forces Act that gives the president power to deploy army to troubled zones.
Adewale said, “The government should allow other arms of government to perform their duties.
“Let him deploy the army to these places and continue the operations pending the time that insurgency will come down.

“All of us have to be patriotic; we have suffered for this democracy and we should nurture it, we should allow it to work.”
He therefore, advised that the army operations should continue until the house resumes.