In strong condemnation of the killings being carried out by suspected herdsmen in Nigeria, particularly in the Middle Belt, the House of Representatives, Wednesday, passed a motion summoning President Muhammadu Buhari to appear before it in plenary and address the House on efforts being taken to arrest the spate of killings.
It further resolved to suspend plenary for three legislative days as a mark of solidarity with Nigerians over the continuing bloodshed in the country.
The lawmakers went further to pass a vote of no confidence on all the service chiefs and security advisers of the president, calling for their replacement to engender fresh ideas targeted at tackling the lingering state of insecurity.
The lower legislative chamber equally directed that all killers or armed herdsmen must be proscribed and declared terrorists while all cattle rearers must be duly registered.
It came just as some lawmakers in the House, for the second day in a row, reiterated their clamour for impeachment proceeding against the president, but this time over his failure to curtail the rising spate of killings in the country.
The resolutions of the House followed a motion brought under matters of urgent public importance by Hon. Mark Gbillah (APC, Benue) on the attack by alleged army personnel on innocent residents of Naka Gwer-West Local Government Area of Benue State and the inability of the army and other security agencies to quell the incessant murder of indigenes of the state by the armed herdsmen.
The House equally observed a minute silence in honour of the army officer, victims of the alleged army attack and victims of the recent attacks by armed herdsmen.
In the far-reaching resolutions, the House also urged Buhari to, within 24 hours, deploy the requisite number of personnel and equipment to the identified locations of the bandits in the state to flush them out and establish permanent military bases in the immediate affected locations within seven days.
The resolutions, however, coincided with reports of fresh attacks by herdsmen in Benue and Nasarawa States, leading to the deaths of 41 persons and several others injured. (Thisday)