Nigeria is our ultimate project. As a parliament, we are committed to the actualisation of this project.
In a Easter message to celebrate with Christians worldwide, Senate President Opeyemi Bamidele warned political actors not to use the country’s security and economic problems for their own benefit.
The speaker of the house, who represents Ekiti central senatorial district, added that the National Assembly is working on legal frameworks to create a state police force in an effort to combat national insecurity.
It is in response to the recent killings that have taken place in Plateau, Benue, Borno, and certain regions of the South-East that he has made these remarks.
The statement read, “The recent killings in Benue and Plateau States outrightly negate the virtues of peace and love that Jesus Christ taught during His days.
“The recurrent utterances by some political and sectional figures also belied the values of courage, perseverance and tolerance He evidently lived for.
“No country develops as a result of one section rising up against another vice versa.
“While the Authority of the National Assembly is in the process of developing legal frameworks for the establishment of state police as one of the measures to address insecurity in the country, we urge security agencies to work together as a team to track and apprehend all the masterminds and sponsors of terror attacks nationwide.
“We appeal to some political actors that always lash on the country’s challenges to push divisive narratives to learn from the example of Jesus Christ.
“Such actors are no longer playing opposition politics, but simply taking advantage of the country’s internal conditions in the pursuit of their own parochial political outcomes.
“Nigeria is our ultimate project. As a parliament, we are committed to the actualisation of this project.
“This is evident in all the legislative initiatives we are pushing since the birth of the 10th National Assembly. And our goal is to build a federation that will be noted for peace, progress and prosperity anywhere in the world.
“Regardless of their ethnicity, politics and religion, all actors should shun all forms of divisive utterance and join forces against the common foes of Nigeria and not to subvert our effort to build a strong and virile federation.”