A member of the House of Representatives from Abia State South East Nigeria, Mr. Amobi Ogar has referred to as on the related safety businesses to deal with the incidents of kidnappings within the state.
He was talking at a media briefing on the National Assembly, Abuja.
He mentioned the the problem of insecurity is a giant problem within the south east that requires pressing consideration by the the Nigerian Government.
The Lawmaker mentioned that nearly on a regular basis, individuals are being kidnapped for a random of as little as fifty thousand naira.
“Kidnaping has become common to the extent that they are now going to peoples homes inside villages to carry them. On the express those ones will carry you and demand for millions of naira. I think it is now a serious issue for me to move on the floor of the House so that Nigerians will hear that my people are passing through a lot,” Mr. Ogar mentioned.
He additionally mentioned that the first essence of governance was to guard the individuals and property.
“If the people are not protected, what’s the essence of government? I have called upon the president, the Chief of Army Staff, the IG and other relevant security agencies to come to our aid. So that my can live in peace. As I’m talking to you, a lot of villagers have flea their homes. Even our mothers do not go to farms anymore,” he mentioned.
Vigilante Groups
The Lawmaker nevertheless mentioned that the Abia state governor was doing rather a lot and there are plans to type vigilante teams as a part of an Ad-hoc answer to the problem.
Mr. Ogar had earlier moved a movement on “The need To Curb The Incessant Attacks By Kidnappers, Assassins, Bandits And Other Criminal Elements In Isuikwuato And Umunneochi Local Government Areas Of Abia State.”
The movement mentioned ” The House:
Notes that assault by the abductors, assassins, bandits and perpetrators of
varied heinous crimes in Isuikwuato and Umunneochi Local Government
Areas of Abia State have lingered for greater than half decade.
Informed that bandits and legal parts have pressured the Nigerian
Military to shut site visitors on the Ihube-Isuochi Road on the Lomara Military checkpoint for a very long time.
Also knowledgeable that the Regional Cattle Market at Lokpanta on the Enugu
Port Harcourt Expressway has persistently been used as human protect by legal parts even with the presence of army checkpoints dotted considerably alongside that route.
Aware that the settlers and merchants on the Regional Cattle Market at Lokpanta are peaceable and law-abiding residents going about their routine companies over an extended time frame; Concerned that continued use of the cattle market as human protect might result in such misinterpretation that might make the market weak to
assaults by legal parts.
Disturbed that the incessant assaults on the communities inside Isuikwuato and Umunneochi Local Government Areas are starting to drive residents to flee their properties and abandon their farmlands and different technique of manufacturing and livelihood.
Further involved concerning the safety dangers confronted and untold hardship suffered by customers of Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway via Lokpanta, Ihube-Isuochi street, Uturu-Okigwe Road, ABSU junction- Akara Road, Uturu-Afikpo Road, Umuaku-Umunze Road, Awgu Ishiagu Road and different roads inside Isuikwuato and Umunneochi Local Government Areas.
On the necessity to enhance army presence and patrols within the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway via Lokpanta, Ihube-Isuochi Road, Uturu-Okigwe Road, ABSU junction-Akara Road, Uturu-Afikpo Road, Umuaku-Umunze Road, Awgu-Ishiagu Road and different roads inside Isuikwuato and Umunneochi Local Government Areas as a way to restore normalcy and earn the boldness of residents carrying as they perform their day by day enterprise actions;
The movement Resolved to:
(i) Urge the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to direct the Nigerian Army, Nigeria Air Force, Nigeria Police and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps to accentuate checks and different safety measure across the Regional Cattle market
in Lokpanta alongside the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway, Uturu-Okigwe Road, Ihube-Isuochi Road, ABSU junctionAkara Road; Uturu-Afikpo Road, Umuaku-Umunze Road,
Awgu-Ishiagu Road and environs;
(ii)Urge additionally the Chief of Army Staff, Inspector General of Police and Commandant-General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defnce Corps to arrange a joint patrol workforce to comb the farmland
and forests to root out kidnappers, bandits and all legal parts in all components of Isuikwuato and Umunneochi Local
Government Areas of Abia State.
(iii) Mandate an Ad-Hoc Committee to interface with the National
Security Adviser, the Chief of Army Staff, Chief of Air Staff, the Inspector-General of Police and the Commandant-General of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps to find out measures aimed toward decreasing the incessant assaults of kidnappers, assassins and bandits and different legal parts in and round Isuikwuato and Umunneochi Local Government Areas of Abia State and environs and report again to the House inside 4 weeks.
Confidence Okwuchi
