Senate President, Senator David Mark on Sunday said the killings in the country must stop, charging all relevant arms of the security agencies rise up to their responsibilities.
Mark described the killing of Senator Gyang Dantong in Plateau State as shocking.
He said “the incessant killings of innocent Nigerians must be stopped.”
A statement by the Special Adviser (Media) to the President of the Senate, Kola Ologbondiyan, quoted Mark as saying that government at all levels and security operatives must rise up to halt the ongoing senseless killings in the country.
Mark said, “We must do everything within the ambit of our laws to ensure that this type of murderous acts is stopped.
“As a nation, we must just rise against those who are determined to return us to a state of nature where life had little or no value.”
Senate President described the death of Dantong as “a personal loss to me.”
Mark said the deceased was “a patriotic parliamentarian, quintessential gentleman and committed nationalist who was killed in active service to his fatherland.”
He called on the security agencies to bring the perpetrators of the gruesome murder to justice.