Lawmakers seek emergency parliamentary session over insecurity, budget implementation

They said the emergency session should focus on the under-implementation of the 2024, 2025 and 2026 budgets, the constitutional controversy surrounding the State Police Constitutional Alteration Bill, allegations of off-budget expenditure, the non-release of capital funds to security agencies, the country’s worsening security situation and measures to restore public confidence in democratic governance.

Some serving members of the House of Representatives, operating under the banner of the Save Democracy Group (SDG), have warned that Nigeria’s democracy is facing a dangerous decline, citing alleged constitutional violations, chronic budget under-implementation, opaque public spending, worsening insecurity and growing economic hardship.

The group maintained that it was not opposed to state police, economic reforms, or necessary public expenditure, but insisted that constitutional procedures, transparent budgeting, and accountability must not be sacrificed.