By; IYOKPO J. EGBODO, Abuja.
The House of Representatives has invited the nation’s Service Chiefs and the Inspector General of Police to brief it on the current security situation in southern Kaduna, even as it has also urged President Muhammadu Buhari to direct the Nigerian Armed Forces and the Police to deal decisively with perpetrators of the killings.
The House has also want the security agencies to be more proactive in identifying the exact areas of the attacks and carry out a comprehensive security mapping on attackers to combat the menace.
This followed a motion by Hon. Gideon Gwani, who lamented with grief over the violent attacks of Jan 6 to 9, 2017 at Tachirak, Adu and Tsonje villages of Kagoro town in Kaura Federal constituency of Southern Kaduna, which he said left about 13 people dead.
According to him, in spite of the 24 hours curfew imposed in the area and the presence of men of the armed forces and the police, gunmen continued to attack villages, recalling that the resolution of Wednesday, June 24, 2015 in which the House urged the executive arm of the Federal Government to set up a committee to comprehensively address the incessant killings in Kaduna State and other parts of the country had not been complied
Also speaking, Baballe Bashir said that the killings in Kaduna started over 37 years ago but regretted that none of the perpetrators had been brought to book. “The southern Kaduna killings have been on for over 37 years, it happened in Kafanchan, Zangon-Kataf, Godogodo, Gidan Waya among others, yet no perpetrator has been arrested, prosecuted and punished”, the lawmaker said.
Many other lawmakers equally condemned the sustained killings in the area and other parts of the country and demanded that a lasting solution be found.
But before the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara put question for votes on the motion, he commended measures so far taken by President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the killings and destruction of property in Southern Kaduna.