OrderPaperToday – Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari has “taken enough steps” to abate the killings in the country.
He made this statement after the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and himself met with Buhari today about the violence in Plateau state.
Citizens in their hundreds have been reported killed in Barkin-Ladi and Riyom local government areas of the state during the weekend.
The President paid a visit to the troubled state on Wednesday.
At the meeting with the two principal leaders today, Dogara in a statement that Buhari briefed them on his experience in Plateau and “the measures he is putting in place to forestall recurrence.”
The Speaker added that “the President has taken enough steps and told us what he is doing especially the reorganisation that he plans to put in place to ensure that this doesn’t happen again.”
The statement reemphasized the resolutions made by the National Assembly during it’s emergency closed door session, few weeks ago.
Dogara declared that the government “can no longer tolerate this kind of situation”, while calling on relevant government agencies to quickly provide emergency relief services to people in the affected areas.
He assured that the National Assembly “will continue to work towards providing all necessary legislative backing to the security agencies more especially funding needed to reform and equip our armed forces to tackle the prevailing security challenges confronting us as a nation.”
He also offered condolences to families of victims of violence in Zamfara, Benue, Plateau, Taraba, Adamawa, Kaduna Nasarawa, Borno, Yobe and other places where insecurith has taken place.
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