The Senate has summoned President Muhammadu Buhari to appear before it
\nover the repeated killings in Benue and other parts of the country.<\/p>\n
The resolution followed a deliberation of a motion on \u201cContinued Killings
\nin Benue State\u201d sponsored by the lawmaker representing Benue North West,
\nSenator George Akume.<\/p>\n
The motion was extensively debated\u00a0on Thursday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0in Abuja by the lawmakers The killings in the country have become worrisome to state governments and Two priests and 17 other worshippers were killed in Gwer East Local Suspected Herdsmen Attack Benue Villages, Kill 16 More People Members of the Senate further condemned the recent killings in strong Senator Gbolahan Dada, on his part informed the Red Chamber that more than Another senator, Barau Jibrin, decried that the security agencies are not \u201cThis is the time to look into the killings in so many states. This shows Other lawmakers want the military to be sent to Benue and find the The Senate has summoned President Muhammadu Buhari to appear before it over the repeated killings in Benue and other parts of the country. The resolution followed a deliberation of a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nwho concurred with an earlier summon of the President by the House of
\nRepresentatives on the same issue.<\/p>\n
\ntheir people, with Benue being the worst hit following the death of no
\nfewer than 35 people since the beginning of the week.<\/p>\n
\nGovernment Area\u00a0on Tuesday<\/span><\/span>, while 16 others were killed in separate
\nattacks on Ali Agundu and Tsav council wards of Guma LGA, barely 24 hours
\nlater.<\/p>\n
\nLawmakers at the Upper Chamber, however, asked President Buhari to address
\na joint session of the National Assembly, suggesting measures by the
\nPresidency to curb the alarming rate of insecurity in the country.<\/p>\n
\nterms, with Senator Mao Ohuabunwa stressing the need to declare a state of
\nemergency in the affected states to enable the military to go in and put
\nan end to the killings.<\/p>\n
\n2,000 Nigerians have lost their lives in the attacks. He then requested
\nthe Senate to visit the states affected with Benue as the first.<\/p>\n
\ndoing enough to put an end to the killings which he said were aimed at
\ndestabilizing the country.<\/p>\n
\nthat our security agencies need to work very hard to put an end to the
\nkillings,\u201d Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso said, while Senator Adamu Aliero was
\nworried that the killing of the Catholic priests might cause a religious
\ncrisis in the country.<\/p>\n
\nkillers, while Senator Adamu Aliero told the Senate to take appropriate
\naction and not just pass motions.<\/p>\n