Senate laments killings, abductions, demands fighter jets’ deployment
The Senate has called on the Federal Government to, as a matter of urgency, deploy fighter jets to flush terrorists out of their hideouts.
This is just as the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, decried that kidnappings and killings have continued despite that the government designated bandits as terrorists.
A member of the Senate, Senator Bello Mandiya (Katsina-South), had raised a point of order at the plenary on Wednesday to lament that banditry and kidnapping had become a daily incident in Katsina State, with huge consequence of loss of lives, means of livelihood and displacement of communities.
Mandiya’s motion of urgent public importance was titled, ‘Urgent need for the Federal Government to take drastic actions to bring to an end the act of banditry and kidnapping in the Faskari Local Government Area’.
“On Sunday, January 31, 2022, gunmen struck Ruwan Godiya, a community in the Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina State, where 38 members of the community were kidnapped,” the lawmaker said.
Mandiya noted that the Federal Government had made frantic efforts towards curbing the menace by setting up the Operation Sharan Daji and Inter-Agency Task Force to tackle cases of banditry, cattle rustling and kidnapping in Katsina.
He said, “The Senate is worried that the continuous security challenges and related attacks by bandits on towns, villages and communities in the Faskari Local Government Area have meted out untold hardship to the people and have subjected the affected areas under serious survival threat.
