The Nigerian Senate has ordered an investigation into last Friday’s attacks on four banks and a police station in Otukpo, Benue State.
On Friday, October 20, heavily armed robbers gunned down more than eight persons including four cops when they attacked the Otukpo police station and raided four commercial banks in the commercial district of the town.
Millions were carted away from branches of First Bank of Nigeria United Bank of Africa, Stanbic IBTC Bank and Zenith Bank.
The daredevil robbers operated unchallenged for about two hours.
“It was armageddon let loose as men of the underworld invaded Otukpo, the ancestral hometown of the Idoma people unleashing mayhem in the process,” Patrick Aba Moro, the Senator representing Benue South district, told the Senate on Tuesday.
Senator Moro was speaking on the motion, “Otukpo Robbery Attack: Urgent Need for Investigation and Intervention.”
He blamed the attack on a lack of intelligence by the security agencies.
Speaking to reporters after the plenary session, Sen. Moro said, “The ninth Senate made recommendations to review the security architecture of this country but it wasn’t implemented. It has become a vicious cycle, we make recommendations but the problem keeps coming.”
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