Ike Ekweremadu, deputy senate
president, has charged his colleagues to do more in stopping the killings
across the nation.
Speaking at plenary on Tuesday,
the senator said there must be a solution to the killings, even if it means the
national assembly should be shut in order for lawmakers to deliberate with the
executive.
He warned his colleagues that if
care is not taken, the issue could render them jobless.
“If they kill everybody, there
will be no representatives and we will have no job,” he said.
“If it means shutting down the
national assembly to go and seek solution with the executive, we can do that.
We must have a country before we even talk about elections.”
Ekweremadu also asked President
Muhammadu Buhari not to be ashamed in seeking help from the international
community if his government is overwhelmed.
“If it were to be in other
developed countries, these challenges will not take so long a time before it is
addressed,” he said.
“We should not be ashamed to seek
for help. We should not be reluctant to come out openly and seek help.”
After deliberations, the
lawmakers referred the matter to an ad-hoc committee mandated to investigate
the cause of the killings.
They also asked the relevant
agencies to provide relief materials for the victims.
There have been widespread
killings across the country in recent times.
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