Arise TV Anchor: Labour Party urges FG to declare emergency on security

By John Alechenu, Abuja

The Senator Nenadi Usman-led Labour Party (LP) has called connected the Federal Government to state a authorities of exigency successful Nigeria’s information assemblage and found backstage detective institutes to assistance information agencies.

This comes successful the aftermath of the sidesplitting of Arise Television’s quality anchor, Ms. Somtochukwu Christelle Maduagwu, during an equipped robbery onslaught astatine her Abuja residence.

In a connection issued successful Abuja connected Tuesday, the party’s Interim National Publicity Secretary, Tony Akeni, described Maduagwu’s decease arsenic shocking and painful, noting that her passing underscores the worsening authorities of insecurity successful the country.

He said: “The Labour Party of Nigeria profoundly commiserates with Arise TV, 1 of Africa’s foremost broadcast organizations, connected the abrupt passing of 1 of their superb and promising anchors. The decease of this young broadcaster and lawyer astatine conscionable 29 is simply a nonstop fallout of Nigeria’s distressing and persistent insecurity.”

The connection lamented the rising complaint of convulsive crimes nationwide, stressing that Nigerians are unsafe successful their homes, schools, and highways contempt immense information budgets. It besides highlighted reports showing that portion Nigeria is not astatine war, its regular casualty complaint from convulsive crimes rivals oregon exceeds that of war-torn regions.

Calling for urgent action, the Labour Party urged the authorities to prioritize national information by investing successful modern surveillance infrastructure specified arsenic CCTV networks successful municipality and agrarian areas, and by considering authorities to admit backstage detectives arsenic a assemblage successful Nigeria.

The enactment added: “It is clip for authorities to marque information a chiseled precedence alternatively than allowing immense information votes to beryllium diverted. Investments should spell into protecting lives and spot truthful that young talents similar Somtochukwu tin unrecorded retired their afloat imaginable successful work to the nation.”

The Labour Party extended its condolences to Maduagwu’s family, colleagues, and the absorption of Arise TV, praying for her psyche to remainder successful peace.

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