The House of Representatives has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to appear before it and address Nigerians on the spate of insecurity across the country within 48 hours.

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Reports have it that this was followed by a motion under matters of public importance by a member, Mark Gbillah, at Thursday, April 11, plenary presided over by speaker Yakubu Dogara in Abuja.

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Moving the motion, Gbillah, who represents Gwer east/Gwer west federal constituency, said the House was concerned with increasing attacks by ”killer herdsmen and alleged bandits in communities in Benue, Kaduna, Zamfara and other states from January till date.”

 

The House is alarmed at the brazen nature of the attacks by the herdsmen and alleged bandits who attack these communities with impunity brazenly clad in military fatigues and audibly communicating with each other in Fulani as reported by eyewitness accounts from the recent attacks in Kaduna. ”

Obviously emboldened by the inability of the Nigerian armed forces to curb their activities, these killers have gradually progressed from attacking remote villages at night to sacking whole towns in brood daylight displacing residents and occupying affected communities,” he said.

According to him, the House is disappointed at the reactive responses of the Nigerian Armed forces to these attacks under this administration and their inability to proactively attack the publicly known locations of these herdsmen or establish a permanent base at restive locations in line with globally recognised rules of engagement.

The lawmaker also expressed worry over the inability of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to fulfill its statutory mandate of providing relief materials and rehabilitation to hopeless displaced persons and their affected communities.

He stressed that the House could no longer condone the continuous killing of innocent Nigerians with impunity despite the plethora of motions and resolutions passed on the floor of the House and the Senate. ”

We have no other option than to directly engage the President and Commander In Chief of the Armed Forces who has primary responsibility for the security and welfare of every Nigerian citizens,” Gbillah stated.

When the motion was put on a voice vote by the speaker, Dogara, the whole members unanimously supported it. The lawmakers, however, resolved that President Buhari should address the House and the nation within 48 hours on his inability and the inability of his administration since inception to declare the killer herdsmen as terrorists to enable commensurate action against them by the armed forced.

He said: ”The inability of the armed forces under his watch to stop the recurring death of scores of innocent Nigerians annually from systematic attacks by killer herdsmen and alleged bandits and the gradual occupation of affected communities by these herdsmen despite countless assurances and statements by him promising to stop the attacks. ”

His selective and ineffective responses to the killing of Nigerians by herdsmen especially when they occur in certain parts of the country like Benue. The House resolved that if the president failed to respond to aforementioned requests within 48 hours, he and his administration would be seen as incapable of permanently curtailing the incessant killing of innocent Nigerians by killer herdsmen and the occupation of their land.

 

Source: legit