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BREAKING: Senate asks Buhari to declare state of emergency on insecurity | READ DETAILS

chuks oti

Feb 17, 2021

The Senate has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency over escalating insecurity across the nation.

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It made the call following kidnap of students and teachers of Government Science Secondary School, Kagara, Niger State by gunmen on Wednesday morning.

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The lawmakers further called on the President Buhari led administration to implementation the various recommendations of the Senate on how to tackle insecurity.

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These resolutions of the Senate followed a motion on a matter of urgent public importance on the incident by Senator representing Niger East, Mohammed Sani Musa.

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Senate President Ahmad Lawan said the frequent incidents of kidnapping of students would reverse the gains made in school enrollment over the years in the North.

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He said parents would no longer yield to persuasion to enroll their wards in school with the level of insecurity plaguing the area especially the kidnap of school children.

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In his contribution, Senator Mohammed Birma Enagi (Niger South) described the Federal Government as "incompetentÔÇØ in dealing with the rising insecurity in the country.

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