IMO: Abaribe seeks probe into violent attacks

THE Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has condemned what he described as “frightening surge of violence” in the Southeastern part of the country.

The lawmaker particularly lamented the havoc wreaked on the Correctional Centre in Owerri, Ebonyi and Enugu states.

Abaribe further expressed worry that the country is fast sliding into total anarchy and cautioned that time has come when the federal government should rise up and address the poor security situation in the country.

He, therefore, demanded a thorough investigation into the rising wave of attack on police formations across the country, especially the ones that happened recently in Imo State.

The Senate Minority Leader said this in a statement issued by his media aide, Uche Awom, in Abuja.

He urged the security agencies to unravel the motives behind the incessant attacks and apprehend the criminal elements to face the full weight of the law.

The statement read in part, “Time has come for sincerity and nationalistic approach by government to address the myriad of problems besetting the country, especially insecurity and poor management of the country’s diversity.

“The time for knee jerk approach and fixated mindset in investigation of criminal attacks by the security agencies has gone. It is not enough to be driven by a certain mindset, which has the tendency of foreclosing other probable leads and motives during investigations of very serious crimes like the ones we are currently experiencing.

“This time calls for deeper introspection and painstaking investigation by the relevant security agencies so that we nip these dangerous dimension in the bud if the country must be rescued from falling off the cliff,” Abaribe said.