NO JUSTIFICATION FOR KILLING OF SOLDIERS IN ABIA STATE 03-06-24
By Sadiq Aminu The Deputy Speaker House of Representatives, Mr. Benjamin Kalu says that there was no justification for the mindless killing of military personnel on duty by yet-to-be identified gunmen.
The deputy speaker who stated this in Abia State when he paid a visit to the wives of the slain soldiers.
Mr. Kalu said the leadership of the House is backing the directives of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to the security agencies to fish out the perpetrators of the heinous crime and bring them to justice.
While Commending the military for maintaining peace in the region through a non kinetic means, Mr.Kalu however regretted the recent move by some criminal elements to scuttle the gains so far recorded.
He appealed to the military to be soft on the people while combing the city and its envious, pleading with them not to allow the innocent suffer unduly.
He said no justification for the heinous act against the State especially when stakeholders have been begging for Peace to return to South East Region. ” “We’ve been pleading that we should no longer use kinetic ways to settle conflicts. We’ve been begging the security agencies. Enough of shooting, and they have respected our call. Even the chief of army staff has gone around preaching non kinetic means to settling our conflicts. He has been going around. I watch him.”
“If you allow the military to be angry in this state, none of us will be safe. If they get angry and say they want to retaliate, we will not be safe in this Abia state. And that is why we are still begging that that non kinetic approach is still what will work”
“Let us not be provoked by those we kept our gun to save their lives. They are now picking up the gun to shoot us. They have shot Nigeria. They shot the parliament when they shot their husbands. They shot the deputy speaker when they shot their husband. They shot the rest of us.
The Deputy Speaker urged the military, to please continue using non kinetic means, in addressing security related problems in the region and Nigeria at large.