By Abba – Eku Onyekachi,
Abuja
The representative of Niger East Senatorial District of Niger state in the Nigeria’s senate, Senator Mohammed Sani Musa, has raised the alarm over the deteriorating security situation in parts of his senatorial zone, even as he called for the review of the nation’s security architecture.
He raised the alarm recently in Abuja, while briefing journalists on the motion he moved against the state of insecurity in his senatorial district and environs.
Urging Federal Government (FG) to immediately deploy troops and other security apparatuses to tackle the menace.
He informed that the senate has appropriated monies and advanced steps to support the nation’s security agencies, and insecurity, according to him, has continued to elude the nation.
Musa lamented that his senatorial district has for seven years been experiencing constant attacks from Boko Haram terrorists, who according to him are armed with sophisticated weapons, unleashing their horror on the innocent populace.
“The effects of atrocities committed by them in the period, include among others: total collapse of the local economies of the affected and that of transport system in the affected areas; famine due to collapse of agricultural activities; displacement of the people, as well as abuse and deadly subjugation.
“Unfortunately, these repeated attacks are taking place amidst absence, slightest hindrance, resistance or confrontation from the authorities concerned. Cognisance that about 42 communities across the local government areas of Shiroro and Munya have so far fallen under the Boko Haram terrorists with about 5,000 villagers already displaced.
They have kidnapped many farmers and their wives seized from them and forcefully attached to the their members”, he lamented.
