Incessant killings in Nigeria, Obi calls for strengthening of security

The Vice-Presidential candidate of the PDP in the last election, Mr. Peter Obi, has condemned in strongest terms the incessant killings of Nigerians on our highways. Obi was reacting to the killing of Mr. Chuks Ofodile along the Gegu-Koton Federal highway in Lokoja, Kogi State.

Obi said that the rapidity with which Nigerian lives are taken is not met with commensurate and visible efforts to address the security lapses. He therefore called on Federal and State governments to wake up to their responsibilities.

Describing the killing of Mr. Offodile as highly regrettable, Obi said that entrepreneurs like him, who started from nothing but by dint of hard work rose to positions where they have contributed immensely to the building of a better country through assisting Government on employment, payment of taxes and fulfilment of other obligations, should be accorded deserved treatment.

Obi appealed to Federal, State and local authorities to strengthen security and save the lives of Nigerians, including entrepreneurs that will assist in the employment of Nigerians, especially now it has been conclusively
proven that job loss is concomitant with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Speaking further, Obi said that if the security situation is left to deteriorate, it will scare away investors, with the attendant negative effects on the economy, in addition to the psychological havoc such killings would wreak on Nigerians who are battling the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Concluding, Obi prayed for the peaceful repose of the soul of Mr. Nicolas Offodile as well as the souls of all those who died in similar circumstances. He also prayed God to omfort those they left behind.

It would be recalled that Mr. Nicholas Ofodile, who owned a chain of supermarkets across the country, was killed by armed robbers yesterday.