Saraki Marks Children’s Day with IDPs in Benue

Our Correspondents

Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, yesterday celebrated this year’s Children’s Day at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Abegena, Benue State, with a renewed call on federal government to step up funding of security agencies.

Saraki who was received at the camp by Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, emphasised the urgent need for government to properly fund the nation’s security agencies. His Chief Press Secretary, Sanni Onogu, in a statement issued in Abuja, quoted the Senate President as saying: “We must equip and support the security agencies, if we are to bring to the barest minimum those situations that cause people to be internally displaced. The killings going on in many parts of this country must stop. They are anathema to civilised values and cannot be tolerated.”

According to him, “Just last week, the Senate received detailed briefings from service chiefs and other security agencies on the nature of our current security challenges, and the ways in which we can contribute to finding solutions.

“The Senate also received the Report of the Security Summit it organised in February this year, an event that tapped into a very wide spectrum of national assets with knowledge, experience and responsibility in improving citizen, community and national security. Saraki while commiserating with the people of Benue over the loss of lives and property occasioned by incessant attacks by bandits, reiterated the call of the Senate for increased funding for security agencies to enable them combat violent crimes across the country.

He stressed that killings in parts of the country must stop because they are an abomination to civilised values that cannot be tolerated. Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, celebrating the 2018 Children’s Day with children at the Abegena Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Benue State.... yesterday.