Senator Jimoh Ibrahim Advocates for Technology in Insecurity Fight, Reveals Gun Detection Software

 Jimoh Ibrahim, the senator representing Ondo South, revealed that a software on his mobile phone detected over 277 guns around the Senate chamber. He made this statement on Wednesday, July 3, while contributing to a motion sponsored by Ali Ndume, the senator representing Borno South.

Ndume's motion addressed the recent suicide bombings in Gwoza, an LGA in his senatorial district. In response, Ibrahim emphasized the importance of technology in combating insecurity.

“I don’t want to take much of your time but I will say clearly it costs nothing for the intelligent army to get devices in their phone to know where these notorious criminals live," Ibrahim stated.

“As I am here, I check my phone regularly and I know the number of guns that are very close to me here. This is just less than one thousand installations. Within us now, there are over 277 guns around here just because an armoury is close to this place.”

Senate President Godswill Akpabio then asked, “Of the 277 guns around you here, do you know how many of them have bullets inside?” Ibrahim responded that since an armoury is close to the National Assembly, the senators were safe.

Ibrahim stressed the need for the military to utilize technology in the fight against insurgency. “So, what I am saying? We can use technology, just like distinguished Senator Ndume had said, to deploy technology rather than using soldiers,” he said.

He argued that the military should stop using unconventional strategies to fight insurgency in Nigeria, advocating for conventional strategies instead. “Boko Haram is an unconventional war,” Ibrahim asserted.

“We are all aware of what happened in Kenya. We cannot close our eyes; we need to wake up. So, I will finally suggest to you, Mr Senate President, and my distinguished colleagues, that this Senate under your leadership, sir, must have a closed-door meeting for one day and then use that whole day to discuss security matters. Our lives are very important.”

Describing the bombings in Gwoza, Borno State, as saddening and an embarrassment, he said, “Living with insecurity cannot be the only way to understand security. We should not get to that.”

“How can you be going to a wedding and somebody just put a bomb to attack you and people started dying? It is uncalled for, it is rejected in the totality of its formulation.”