Joshua Dariye, senator
representing Plateau central, on Thursday co-sponsored a motion from jail.
The motion was on the killing of
Faye Mooney, an official of Mercy Corps Nigeria, a humanitarian agency, and
Matthew Oguche, her partner, at the Kajuru Castle in Kaduna state.
Shehu Sani, senator representing
Kaduna central, sponsored the motion to formally draw the attention of the
lawmakers to the incident.
Mooney and Oguche died during an
exchange of gun fire between police officers guarding the castle and suspected
bandits on Friday.
However, on the senate’s order
paper, Dariye name was listed among the 108 senators who co-sponsored the
motion.
The name of the imprisoned
lawmaker reflected as number 89, alongside 108 others, on the official order
paper for Thursday 25th April.
The senator is serving a 10-year
prison sentence for “diversion of N1.62 billion ecological” funds while he
served as governor of Plateau.
Moving the motion, Sani said the
killing of foreigners may put Nigeria’s diplomatic relations with other
countries on the line.
“More worried that due to the
fact perpetrators of these heinous activities tend to be gaining more courage
to perpetuate their dastardly acts without fear of confrontation due to their
acclaimed superior firepower,” he said.
Contributing to the debate, Kabir
Marafa, senator representing Zamfara central, said government needs to be bold
to tackle the menace of kidnapping and banditry.
Marafa said the accomplices of
the perpetrators of the acts need to be “fished out.”
“In moving forward, we need to be
bold. We need to come up with ways in fighting it,” he said.
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