Civil society organisations and a security expert have criticized Senate President Godswill Akpabio for linking Thursday’s killings of 16 military personnel in Delta State to foreign mercenaries.
The troops were killed while on a peace mission to the warring communities of Okuoma and Okoloba.
Akpabio spoke Tuesday during plenary when the Senate resolved to constitute a committee to unravel the circumstances behind the military personnel’s killings.
Reacting to Akpabio’s claims, Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, Executive Director, Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) and Transparency International-Nigeria (TI-Nigeria) said a criminal is a criminals irrespective of where they come from.
Executive Director, CLEEN Foundation, Gad Peter, said political leaders should be careful about their comments “after incident or crimes have taken place.”
He explained that for Akpabio to say the people that killed the soldiers are foreigners means that he has information. So, he should provide the details of which nation invaded our country so that Nigeria can go to war with them for killing our soldiers
