By Henry Umoru
ABUJA — The Senate on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to discontinue the policy of rehabilitating and reintegrating former Boko Haram members into society, insisting that suspected terrorists should instead be arrested and prosecuted in accordance with the law.
The upper chamber also condemned the worsening insecurity across the country, describing it as increasingly complex, persistent and alarming, with terrorism, insurgency, banditry, kidnapping and violent attacks continuing to claim lives, destroy livelihoods and disrupt economic activities.
The resolutions followed a motion of urgent national importance sponsored by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Army, Senator Abdulaziz Musa Yar’Adua (APC, Katsina Central), titled “Escalating Attacks, Abductions and Killings of Serving and Retired Military Personnel: A Growing Threat to National Security and State Authority in Nigeria.”
As part of its resolutions, the Senate urged the Federal Government to ensure that perpetrators of terrorist attacks and other violent crimes are arrested and prosecuted.
