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INSECURITY: LAWMAKERS IN BUHARI’S CONSTITUENCY BURST INTO TEARS
RISING INSECURITY:LAWMAKERS IN BUHARI’S CONSTITUENCY BURST INTO TEARS DURING PLENARY.
Katsina State House of Assembly lawmakers on Monday wept bitterly during plenary while discussing the alarming rise in insecurity under the current administration.
Katsina is President Muhammadu Buhari’s home state.
NAN reports that the lawmakers broke down in tears while deliberating over the insecurity plaguing many local government areas of the state.
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Deputy Speaker, Shehu Dalhatu-Tafoki, had presented a motion of urgent public importance over the level of insecurity in Katsina at the plenary presided over by the Speaker, Tasi’u Maigari.
According to Dalhatu-Tafoki, (APC Faskari), despite the federal government, state government, and security agencies’ efforts, insecurity worsens by the day in Katsina, NAN reports.
He, therefore, called on the government and the security agencies to re-strategise their approach to eliminate bandits in Katsina.Dalhatu-Tafoki noted that insecurity in Katsina had worsened with more people killed every day.
“There is a serious need for the security outfits in the state to increase their outposts across the state, especially the most insecurity affected areas. The outposts in those areas are not enough.
They cannot overpower the bandits, despite the huge amounts of money being spent on them,” he said.In his contribution, Haruna Goma (APC Dandume), representing the Dandume constituency, said no fewer than 11 persons were killed in two communities of Dandume, and many were abducted recently.
While narrating the incident, the lawmaker burst into tears, saying the government should come to their aid and their communities before they end up being massacred.
Similarly, the member representing the Funtua constituency, Abubakar Mohammed (APC Funtua), also shed tears as he narrated how for 40 days, bandits attacked communities daily, killing scores and kidnapping many.
Another lawmaker representing the Katsina constituency revealed that about 32 out of the 34 local government areas in Katsina had come under bandits’ attacks. He added that even within the Katsina metropolis, people were kidnapped.