Nigeria: Saraki Marks Children's Day With IDPs in Benue

28 May 2018

Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, yesterday celebrated this year's Children's Day at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Abegena, Benue State, with a renewed call on federal government to step up funding of security agencies.

Saraki who was received at the camp by Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, emphasised the urgent need for government to properly fund the nation's security agencies. His Chief Press Secretary, Sanni Onogu, in a statement issued in Abuja, quoted the Senate President as saying: "We must equip and support the security agencies, if we are to bring to the barest minimum those situations that cause people to be internally displaced. The killings going on in many parts of this country must stop. They are anathema to civilised values and cannot be tolerated."

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