…Condemns attack on Edo train station
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, says the country urgently needs State Police.
The former vice-president said this in a Twitter post yesterday, while reacting to the attack on the train station in Igueben, Edo State.
According to reports, the gunmen, suspected to be herdsmen, kidnapped many passengers and left some with bullet wounds at the train station. While condemning the attack, Atiku said he will put in place specific initiatives, if elected president in the coming election.
Atiku wrote: “The attack on a train station in Igueben LGA of Edo state, during which armed men kidnapped an undetermined number of people, is the latest in a long condemnable line of security breaches previously unseen in our national history”.
“The thoughts of my family and I are with the abducted and their families as we pray for their safe return. While we pray, it is important also to point out that this serves as the latest reminder of the urgent need to reform our security architecture to better safeguard the lives and properties of Nigerian citizens. We can do this by doing the following; amending our Constitution to allow for States and community policing as a first line of security.
Atiku added that there is the need to deploy technology toward tracking terrorists and degrading their existing capacity to attack people.
