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Vanguard News Translate Benue Killings: Reps ask army to deploy more personnel, surveillance equipment to flashpoints On … request release of N10bn for reconstruction, resettlement of IDPs By Levinus Nwabughiogu-Abuja House of Representatives yesterday requested the Defence Ministry and Nigerian Army to immediately deploy more personnel and equipment including surveillance and intelligence gathering technology to operation whirl stroke operatives in Benue State to tackle the resurgence of attacks by suspected herdsmen. It also mandated its Committees on Defence and Army to immediately conduct an investigation into the prevailing circumstances and conditions of operation whirl stroke and other military operations operatives across the country to identify any constraints deterring them from carrying out their mandate of protecting the lives and property of Nigerians. ....
By Udora Orizu The House of Representatives has condemned the killing of about 70 persons in communities in Benue State by suspected herdsmen. The lawmakers, at the plenary yesterday mandated the Committees on Emergency and Disaster Preparedness, and Appropriations to “prevail on the Budget Office and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to ensure (that) adequate extra allocation is provided in any impending supplementary budget, and in NEMA’s 2022 budget to enable NEMA to provide monthly comprehensive intervention to IDP camps across Benue, Nasarawa and Taraba states as is currently the case with IDP camps in Borno State.” The House also urged the Ministry of Defence and the Nigerian Army to “immediately deploy more personnel and equipment, including surveillance and intelligence gathering technology to Operation Whirl Stroke operatives in Benue State, to enable them to tackle this resurgence of attacks by suspected herdsmen.” ....
Share Members of the House of Representatives on Wednesday expressed displeasure over the resurgence of wanton killing of innocent Nigerians across Benue State by suspected herdsmen. The lawmakers who condemned the heinous crime against armless citizens during the debate on a motion under Matter of Urgent Public Importance sponsored by Hon. Mark Gbillah, called for Federal Government intervention with a view to ending the menace. The lawmaker expressed concern over the seeming inability of-operation whirl stroke operatives stationed in Gwer-West LGA and other security agencies in the area to counter the current guerilla tactics of these attackers immediately respond to distress calls by the victims, nor arrest the perpetrators of the heinous crime in the last three weeks who are suspected to be exacting vengeance on innocent citizens in Benue because of their displeasure with the Benue State Governments enforcement of the anti-open grazing law. ....