In reaction to recent
killings in Benue State, Sam Anyanwu, senator representing Imo East, has called
on the President Muhammadu Buhari-led executive to declare the perpetrators as
terrorists.
Mr. Anyanwu spoke on
the floor of the Senate on Tuesday.
His submission followed
the Senate’s consideration of an interim report by the ad-hoc committee on the
review of security infrastructure of Nigeria.
He wants the
perpetrators to be tagged terrorists just as members of the Independent People
of Biafra, IPOB.
“They said these people
are not Fulani cattle rearers, that they are foreigners. Then if they are
foreigners, they should be tagged terrorists,” he said.
“If IPOB was tagged a
terrorist group because they are agitating, what about foreigners who come into
Nigeria to kill people and then we see them as herdsmen, I don’t believe they
are herdsmen.”
Mr. Anyanwu called on
the executive and other senators to solve the problem instead of shifting
blames.
“If we don’t solve
this, I bet you Mr. President, this blame game will continue. Now, 2019 is
coming, politics is by the corner, everybody wants to play politics with
everything.”
- PT
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