A plenary session of the House of Reps (PHOTO CREDIT: @HouseNGR)
The House of Representatives on Tuesday urged the federal government and security agencies to intensify efforts to rescue schoolchildren and teachers abducted in Oyo and Borno states.
Members also renewed calls for far-reaching reforms of Nigeria’s security architecture, including the establishment of state police and local policing units.
The resolutions followed the adoption of two separate motions of urgent public importance that highlighted the growing wave of school kidnappings and attacks on communities, which lawmakers said had become a major threat to education and public safety across the country.
The first motion, sponsored by Olamijuwonlo Alao-Akala (APC, Oyo), focused on the abduction of pupils and teachers in Orire Local Government Area of Oyo State, the killing of a schoolteacher, Michael Oyedokun, and the need for structural reforms to tackle insecurity.
