Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, yesterday said the National Assembly will accelerate support for President Bola Tinubu in strengthening security and advancing key reforms aimed at repositioning Nigeria’s economy.

Akpabio stated this yesterday after leading principal officers of the Senate on a traditional Sallah homage to President Tinubu at his Lagos residence.

“He (President) can’t do it alone. The National Assembly will assist him to ensure that we improve in the area of security. But it has actually improved,” Akpabio said.

He noted that current security threats were largely targeted attacks on soft locations such as schools, churches and mosques, unlike previous periods marked by widespread insurgent occupation and bomb attacks.

“There is no part of Nigeria today where the flag of any insurgents, whether Boko Haram, is being hoisted. All those organised bomb blasts everywhere have been brought to an end,” he said.

The Senate President, however, acknowledged that more still needed to be done, especially in securing vulnerable communities and border areas.

“We believe that working with him, the National Assembly can come up with a solution and a framework that will enable the states to also partake in securing lives and property, and that is in the area of state police,” he stated.

Akpabio disclosed that lawmakers were exploring the establishment of a regulated state policing system under a national framework. “We are looking at ways of creating a positive and not a negative state police, something that can have a national state police commission that will regulate conduct, promotion and training,” he said.

He added that citizens also had a responsibility to support security agencies by remaining vigilant and reporting suspicious activities within their communities.