Nigeria’s security situation has taken new scary dimension —Sen Moro

Sen. Abba Moro, the Vice Chairman Senate Committee on Army, has said Nigeria’s security situation “is scary” noting that it had taken new dimensions.

He also pleaded with the Nigeria Police to step up investigation on attack of Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue.

Moro (PDP-Benue) made the plea via a statement in Abuja on Monday, April 5.

Ripples Nigeria had reported that Ortom was recently attacked in his farm at the outskirts of Makurdi, the state capital.

The Inspector-General of Police (I-G) Mohammed Adamu, had ordered full-scale investigations into the circumstances surrounding the attack.

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Moro, speaking on the investigation, said that he was hopeful that the I-G would come up with a report that would fish out the perpetrators of the act.

“I don’t want to preempt what the police is doing now. The I-G had sent a special task force from the headquarters to go and investigate the activities.

“We better wait and see what the report will be like. In the meantime, we thank God that the governor is safe,” he said.

“There are new dimensions that are being introduced now. In the past it used to be the Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East. But today you find it has gravitated to a level of banditry and kidnapping and armed robbery that had been a thing of the past”.

The lawmaker, however, called on the government to step up activities of security agencies.

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