Herdsmen Killings: Omo-Agege sympathizes with constituents, urges Security Agents to be Proactive

National Assembly member and Senator representing Delta Central district, Ovie Omo-Agege has appealed to his constituents to avoid anarchy following the killing by suspected herdsmen of an Urhobo youth, Solomon Ejoh.

While condemning the threat to national security by those he described as killer-herdsmen, Omo-Agege, in a statement called on security agents to apprehend the perpetrators in order not to provoke the aggrieved citizenry into resorting to self-help.

According to Sunday Vanguard, the Senator stated that, he was on his own part addressing the situation through the Senate and other government agencies.

“Without a doubt, the bloody activities of the so-called herdsmen is becoming an existential threat to many, including the Urhobo Nation,”Senator Omo-Agege noted.

“Whoever threatens national security by wantonly and brazenly attacking communities; ransacking farms; raping women and children; killing people; and destroying property is a criminal of the terrorist class. Government must act decisively against these terrorists in the national interest. This is necessary to avoid individual or communal resort to self-help for the sake of survival”.

“Naturally, there is now palpable grief and anger everywhere over this condemnable act of mindless murder. I sympathise with the family of the deceased, people of Abraka and the entire Urhobo for this very painful and needless loss of a young and vibrant life”.

The latest victim of the herdsmen menace met his untimely death while he was trying to rescue his mother from the alleged killer-herdsmen in Ovre-Abraka.

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