Borno killings: Review your security strategy, PDP senators tell Buhari

Abaribe

Disturbed by the Sunday gruesome killings of rice farmers in Borno State by the Boko Haram insurgents, the Senate minority caucus has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government to review its security strategy “since it seems the current one has failed woefully.”

The caucus, which comprises mainly members of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP senators, in a statement by the Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, expressed deep shock over the ugly incident, saying “it was saddening that the harvest season has now been turned to mourning season.”

“We are horrified that our people, particularly the farmers who are toiling tirelessly to sustain the nation’s food security has always become the target of the insurgents.

“This is so horrendous and mind wrenching and of course the unmindful slaughter of our people in such a dastardly manner is becoming way too many. It’s embarrassing to the country and calls to question the government’s strategy and capacity to tame the rising wave of insurgency and banditry ravaging a large swath of our dear nation, particularly in the Northern region”, he said.

The caucus, according to the statement signed by Senator Abaribe’s Media Adviser, Uchenna Awom urged the government to up the ante in the fight against the frightening insecurity occasioned by the resurging Boko Haram insurgents, banditry and kidnapping all over the country.

It added that it is no longer enough for the Presidency to always issue tepid statements by the condemning attacks and daily killing of our citizens, saying now is the time to take decisive action and review its strategy since it seems the current one has failed woefully.

The caucus however commiserated with the government and people of Borno State, while it prays that God will console the families of the victims.