Osun State lawmaker representing Obokun/Oriade Federal Constituency, Hon. Busayo Oluwole Oke on Monday mourned victims of Sunday gun attack on a Catholic Church in the ancient town of Owo in Ondo State, describing it as barbaric.
He urged security agencies to wake up and fish out the perpetrators.
In a statement made available to news men in Abuja, the federal lawmaker called for extra vigilance by the nation’s security agencies as the prepations for the 2023 general elections hot up, saying the gruesome killing of innocent worshippers in Owo, Ondo state last Sunday was not what the nation needed at this critical period.
Hon Oke who is also the Chairman of the House of Representatives on Public Accounts condemed the killing, adding it was senseless, just as he described the perpetrators and those behind them as beasts who should be hunted down immediately by the security agents.
According to him,”my heartfelt condolences are with the people of Owo over the Sunday massacre. My heart is heavy and I am still grieving over the murder of innocent Nigerians. The beasts who carried out the dastardly act will perish unsung and unwept. Their children children will suffer and die violently,” he ssid.
The day light massacre in the ancient of Owo, according to him was a wakeup call to Nigerians that no part of the country was safe, adding that if places of worship, regarded as sacred havens of peace were being invaded with impunity, others places are in danger.
He consoled the Owo monarch, Ondo state Governor Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu, family members of those killed the church and the entire Owo people over the loss of their loved ones.
He called for the urgent overhaul of the nation’s security apparatus with a view to providing better and reliable security to the citizenry.
The lawmaker also sensitised Nigerians to be conscious of their environment because criminals, according to him, were not ghosts but human beings leaving among the people
According to him, with what happened on Sunday in Owo “it behoves on everyone to literally become a security agent by alerting the relevant authorities about the criminal activities of wicked people around them before their sinister plans are executed.”
He prayed for the repose of the souls of the slain ones and asked God to grant their relatives the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.
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