Senate expresses outrage over raging insecurity across Nigeria, summons security chiefs for explanations
In response to the growing level of insecurity in the nation, the Nigerian Senate has called a meeting with the heads of security, with a precise date to be determined later.
After more than three hours of closed-door discussion, the Senate denounced the growing number of kidnappings, banditry, and outright killings of law-abiding residents by criminals.
Senate Leader Michael Bamidele Opeyemi disclosed that all 109 senators supported the insecurity motion because of its critical significance.
During his remarks, Senate President Godswill Akpabio decried the ongoing banditry and kidnappings across the nation
He pointed out that the situation has gotten to the point where kidnappers are using middlemen to get ransom payments.
He vehemently denounced the recent bandit attacks in the Plateau as well as the gas explosion in Oyo State’s capital, Ibadan.
The lawmakers observed a one-minute silence in honour of victims of attacks across Nigeria and the recent explosion in Ibadan before adjourning until Tuesday, February 6, 2024.
In the last three years, gangs of highly armed men have wreaked havoc in Nigeria’s northwest, kidnapping thousands, killing hundreds, and making it unsafe to travel by road or farm in some places.
The attacks have added to the worries of security agencies that have been fighting a 14-year insurgency in the northeast, deadly farmer-herder and sectarian battles in the north-central, and escalating attacks by a separatist group in the southeastern parts of the country.
