Unic Press UK: The lower chamber of Nigeria’s bicameral legislature, House of Representatives, voted Wednesday, reaching a consensus to summon President Muhammadu Buhari to appear at plenary to answer verbal queries on the parlous security situation given widespread incessant killings in the country.
Hon. Terseer Mark Gbillah raised a point of order on the alleged attack by Army personnel on innocent residents of Naka in Gwer-West LGA of Benue State & the inability of the Army & other agencies to quell the incessant murder of indigenes of Benue state by armed herdsmen.
— House of Reps NGR (@HouseNGR) April 25, 2018
The summon for Buhari comes at a time of brazen and sustained killings in several parts of the country, especially Benue, Taraba, Nasarawa, Kaduna, Zamfara, Plateau, Kaduna, and so on.
In one of the most recent brutal killing of innocents, two priests of the Catholic Diocese of Makurdi, Benue State, Rev Fr Joseph Gor and Rev Fr Felix Tyolaha, were seveteen innocent people who were murdered on Tuesday, the 24 April 2018, when their parish, St Ignatius Quasi-Parish, Ukpo-Mbalom, Gwer West Local Government Council, Benue State, was invaded by suspected Fulani herdsmen during morning Mass.
“This government has failed the people of Benue state”, he said.
Hon. Dickson Taghir said that 22 people in his constituency were killed in their sleep early this morning, and alleged that the attackers invade these communities from their hideouts in Nasarawa state.
— House of Reps NGR (@HouseNGR) April 25, 2018
The lawmakers have yet to fix a date for Buhari to appear.
