Okuama: Akpabio Identifies Those Who Killed Soldiers As Senate Rejects Relief To Community

THE President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio has said that those involved in Thursday’s killing of 16 officers and men of the 181 Amphibious Battalion at Okuama in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta are not from the Niger Delta geo- political zone of the country or even from Nigeria.

Speaking on Tuesday during debate on two merged motions by Senators Abdulaziz Yar’Adua, APC, Katsina Central and Edeh Dafinone, APC, Delta Central, the President of the Senate  who noted the youths who killed the Soldiers in Okuama may be mercenaries.

According to Akpabio as Nigeria is not at war, ” I don’t think they are from the Niger Delta,  they may be mercenaries.

Meanwhile, the Senate has begun a probe into the killings as it has asked its Committee on Defence,  Army, Navy  and Air force to liaise with the Military authorities to get more information on the remote and immediate causes of what it described as dastardly act.

Senate has called on the federal government to apprehend the perpetrators of the horrific killing of military personnel in Okaoma community in Delta state on March 14, 2024 and bring them to book, just as it observed a minute silence in the honour of this killed.

The Upper Legislative Chamber equally called for the recruitment of more policemen so that the military will not be dragged into civil matters.

The Senate however rejected a prayer to observe a minute silence or to commiserate with the families of innocent civilians killed in the process, saying that their numbers are still unknown.

While the Senate rejected an additional prayer for relief materials for the Okuoma community by the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA as proposed by Senator  Dafinone,  the Upper Chamber resolved that families of the killed soldiers should be compensated immediately as moved by the Deputy Senate President,  Senator Barau Jibrin APC, APC, Kano North and seconded by Senator  Tony Nwoye,  LP, Anambra North.

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