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<\/p>\nIt also said the invitation would be an interactive session for planning jointly a strategy that would help to curb the growing menace.<\/p>\n
This development was sequel to an adopted motion titled, \u201cSenseless Killing of a Briton and the Abduction of three others in a Resort in Kaduna by Armed Bandits\u201d, sponsored by Senator Shehu Sani representing Kaduna Central with many other senators as co-sponsors.<\/p>\n
DAILY POST recalls that the Briton, Faye Mooney, an aid worker, was killed by kidnappers in Kajuru Castle, a recreation centre location in Kaduna State last week.<\/p>\n
She was also kidnapped and killed with Matthew Ogwuche, a Nigerian training assistant with the International NGO Safety Organisation (INSO), with three others abducted.<\/p>\n
In his lead debate, Sani said attacks on individuals, houses, and villages have become too many and that not even one suspect has ever been prosecuted for the crime.<\/p>\n
The lawmaker was worried that the bandits tend to be gaining more courage to perpetuate their acts \u201cdue to their acclaimed superior firepower.\u201d<\/p>\n
Contributing, the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu said the unfortunate incident was not happening for the first time where a non-Nigerian (especially construction\/aid workers) was kidnapped in the country.<\/p>\n
Ekweremadu said if nothing is done, Nigeria will continue to be profiled as a terrorist state abroad.<\/p>\n
In his words, \u201cThis nation\u2019s security has been breached. Tourists who have plans of coming to Nigeria will now think twice before coming. And this is affecting our economy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is important to take this issue seriously in order to protect our national image. Even if it means declaring a state of emergency in affected states, so be it,\u201d Ekweremadu said.<\/p>\n
It was in the course of the debate that Ekweremadu suggested and it was approved that the IGP be invited for a briefing.<\/p>\n
He said \u201cMr President, since we now have a new IGP \u2013 as the other one was uninterested in talking to us, let us invite him to give a holistic view of the state of kidnapping across the country with a view to finding a lasting solution.\u201d<\/p>\n
The upper chamber also resolved to urge security agencies to immediately deploy the use of drones and interceptors in tracking kidnappers and combating other forms of criminality.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Senate on Thursday summoned the acting Inspector-General of Police, IGP Mohammed Adamu, for a briefing concerning the seemly unrelenting rate of banditry and kidnappings across the country. It also said the invitation would be an interactive session for planning jointly a strategy that would help to curb the growing menace. This development was sequel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[4477,550,351,9542],"class_list":["post-110753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-igp","tag-kidnapping","tag-senate","tag-zamfara-attack"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}