The Nation Newspaper Enugu killings: Senate seeks police, military presence in Uzo-Uwani
The Senate on Wednesday, May 15, urged the Inspector General of Police , Kayode Egbetokun, and the Chief of Army Staff and co-sponsored by Senator Kelvin Chukwu and Senator Osita Ngwu .
He said there was a major massacre in the Nimbo community in the early hours of April 25, 2016, which left over 46 people dead and 14 persons injured, with their houses and other property completely razed.He expressed worry that the killings did not seem to be isolated as their persistence indicated a pattern, saying that even with the 2016 killings, the authorities both at the state and Federal levels had not taken robust steps to stop it.
He said residents were abandoning their communities and relocating to urban areas, thereby, exacerbating the rural-urban migration crises in the country. Ngwu said it was a misrepresentation of facts that the state and Federal governments and security agencies were not working hard to put an end to the attacks and killings and protect members of the communities.
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