Senate Orders IGP to Arrest and Prosecute Killer Herdsmen

Posted by Thandiubani on Thu 25th May, 2017 - tori.ng

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris, has been given an order to halt the spate of killing in the land and bring all culpable herdsmen to book.

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The Senate, yesterday, directed the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris, to as a matter of urgency, arrest the killers herdsmen and prosecute them.

The Senate instructed the police boss to unmask the killer of Mr. Solomon Ejoh and all armed killers masquerading as herdsmen in communities, forests, and farms in Delta Central and across the country in general.

The Senate also constituted an Ad-hoc Committee to investigate all cases of killings by terrorist elements, who were masquerading as herdsmen nationwide, insisting that these culprits must be brought to justice.

These resolutions follwed a motion under Point of Order 43 of the Senate Standing Rule, raised under matter of urgent public importance during plenary by Senator Ovie Omo-Agege (APC, Delta Central). In the motion entitled, “Need for urgent National Security intervention to stop the gruesome killing of Urhobos and other Nigerians in Delta Central Senatorial District and other parts of the nation by terrorist elements masquerading as herdsmen in rural communities, forests and farms”, he condemned the killings by alleged Fulani herdsmen.

Omo-Agege said, “the Senate notes that historically, rural dwellers in Urhoboland and other parts of this country have always lived in peace and harmony with themselves and citizens from other parts of this beautiful country, including tradi-tional herdsmen, who are never armed with sophisticated war weapons and who go about their herding activities peacefully”.

He was worried that without regards for the sanctity of human life and any justification whatsoever, Urhobos and indeed other Nigerians, were being gruesomely and extra-judicially killed in rural communities, forests, and farms by terrorist elements and hardened criminals who are armed with sophisticated war weapons and who masquerade as herdsmen.

The lawmaker particularly condemned “the recent brutal killing of a young, vibrant, and popular youth leader, Solomon Ejoh, by terrorist elements/hardened criminals operating under the cover of herdsmen in Ovre-Abraka, Ethiope East Local Government of Delta State”.