The Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has urged the state governor, Monday Okpebholo-led All Progressives Congress, APC, government, to wake up to its responsibility in tackling the spate of insecurity, alleging that about 35 innocent residents have been killed in the past two weeks.
Kpakpando reports that the state acting caretaker committee chairman of the party, Anthony Aziegbemi, made the call at a press conference on Monday in Benin City.
The press conference was titled “Edo PDP State-of-the-State Address.”
Aziegbemi opined that the former governor of the state and now a senator representing Edo North senatorial district, Adams Oshiomhole, had, during plenary at the National Assembly, decried and lamented the worsening insecurity in the state.
While positing that the primary responsibility of any government is the protection of lives and property of citizens, he, however, noted that the Okpebholo-led government has woefully failed the citizens and residents.
The state PDP chairman alleged that in the past two weeks, no fewer than 35 innocent Edo residents have been brutally killed, including Batemue Philip Ebo, Christopher Bello, and Victor Ogedengbe—a Catholic priest, a seminarian, and a vigilante commander in Owan East Local Government Area, respectively.
He alleged that the victims’ lives were tragically cut short by militant groups and killer herdsmen, while several others sustained various degrees of injuries, and properties worth millions of naira were destroyed.
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