Urges govt to pay victims’ statutory death benefits, insurance claims, other entitlements
Commends president, security agencies on rescued pupils, teachers•SGF blasts Makinde for playing politics with Oriire abduction•LAUTECH teaching hospital discharges 31 rescued pupils, retains eight as one develops heart defect
Olawale Ajimotokan, Sunday Aborisade in Abuja and Kemi Olaitan in Ibadan
The Senate leadership, yesterday, asked the federal government to sustain and intensify ongoing military and intelligence operations against terrorists, kidnappers, bandits and other criminal elements across the federation as demonstrated in the recent rescue of kidnapped pupils and teachers in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State.
The parliament, also, tasked the federal government to ensure the prompt payment of all statutory death benefits, insurance claims, pensions and other welfare entitlements due to the families of the fallen heroes and continue to strengthen the welfare, training, equipment and operational capacity of members of the Armed Forces and other security agencies.
