The Senate has ordered the Nigeria Police, Division of State Companies (DSS) and different related safety companies to hold out complete investigations into the bloody assault on the convoy of the senator representing Anambra South Senatorial District, Ifeanyi Ubah on September 11 at Enugwu-Ukwu group in Njikoka Native Authorities Space in Anambra State,
The investigation was ordered on Tuesday in Abuja to arrest and prosecute the perpetrators.
The higher legislative chamber additionally mandated the safety companies to report findings to the Senate Committee on Nationwide Safety and Intelligence in addition to the Senate Committee on Police Affairs inside two weeks.
The resolutions adopted the adoption of a movement by Senator Uche Ekwunife (PDP Anambra Central), who famous with deep concern the assault on Senator Ifeanyi Ubah’s convoy on Sunday, September 11, 2022, at Enugu-Ukwu, Anambra State by gunmen suspected to be employed murderer, killing some safety males and different aides of the lawmaker.
She particularly lamented that the assault on the Younger Progressives Occasion, YPP senator led to the grotesque killing of two of his long-serving private aides and two cellular police personnel by the gunmen.
The lawmaker famous that “the killings, maiming and wanton destruction of lives have now grow to be a recurring decimal within the South East the place unknown gunmen terrorize residents frequently.”
Senator Ekwunife recalled that Okechukwu Okoye (Okey di Okay), a serving lawmaker within the Anambra State Home of Meeting was not too long ago kidnapped, murdered and gruesomely beheaded, lamenting that to this point, no arrest or report has been made in reference to this dastardly killing.
She was anxious that these assaults by armed males have continued within the South East regardless of repeated authorities assurance to handle the pervasive safety disaster.
The lawmaker warned that if the federal authorities didn’t “intervene urgently, the heinous and barbaric killings might proceed, thereby subjecting the folks of Anambra State to untold worry and hardship.”
Accordingly, the Senate noticed a minute silence in honour of the victims that misplaced their lives within the unlucky assault.
It could be recalled that Senator Ubah confirmed the deaths of a few of his private and safety aides in the course of the assault on his convoy.
The lawmaker, who confirmed the incident to newsmen on Monday in Awka, stated the assassins killed one Obum Ikechukwu and Goodness Mathias, including that a few of his safety aides from the Police and DSS have been additionally killed.
The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Echeng Echeng, who visited the scene the place he noticed blood stains, didn’t give the determine of the victims.