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BREAKING: Tinubu pens Senate, seeks go-ahead to deploy troops to Benin Republic
President Bola Tinubu has written to the Senate, requesting its consent to deploy Nigerian forces to the Republic of Benin for combat operations in another country.
The letter was read on Tuesday during plenary by Senate President Godswill Akpabio.
According to Tinubu, the request aligns with Section 5(5) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and is driven by the need for peacekeeping support as a neighboring and sister country.
The President said that deploying the troop was as a result of a request by the Republic of Benin for assistance and considering the close ties of friendship and brotherhood.
It will be recalled that soldiers operating under the “Military Committee for Refoundation”, led by Lt Col Pascal Tigri, briefly seized the state television station in Cotonou on Sunday, announcing the overthrow of President Patrice Talon’s administration, but the coup was thwarted by the intervention of fighter jets and troops deployed in the neighbouring country by President Tinubu.
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