KILLINGS: Life has become more brutish, worthless in Rivers – Senator

The Nigerian Senate was on Wednesday told that life has become “brutish and worthless” in Rivers State as people are being “killed, kidnapped or abducted at any time of the day.”

The Senator representing Rivers East, Andrew Uchendu, made this known to the lawmakers, regretting the rising spate of killings in the oil rich state.

According to Uchendu, though for more than a decade, killing of innocent citizens, kidnapping, violence had been the bane of Rivers State, the situation has however, since after the 2015 general elections, assumed a dangerous proportion.

He lamented “a more horrendous dimension by the decapitation and or dismembering of body parts, including beheading of victims,” by their killers.

He said that a new twist has now been added to “this sacrilegious conduct by not only killing by beheading but also by having the corpses burnt.”

He went further to say that at about 9.00pm on Sunday, May 19, 2019 that “unknown gunmen invaded Isiodu Community in Emohua LGA, Rivers State and killed three young men between 23 and 30 and unashamedly burnt the corpses.”

Noting that the killings spread across the length and breadth of Rivers State, Uchendu said he is aware that “the primary responsibility of any responsive government is the provision of security of life and property of its citizens.”

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He added, “In Rivers State, life has become more brutish and worthless, since anybody can be killed, kidnapped or abducted at any time of the day.”

The Senate meanwhile, resolved to call on the Federal and the Rivers State governments to set up strategic measures to ensure the rising cases of killings in the state are checkmated.

According to the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, all forms of criminality must be dealt with in the interest of the country.

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