July 27 (EUROPA PRESS) –
More than 20 Nigerian senators from across the political spectrum have staged a protest after House Speaker Ahmed Lawan rejected a no-confidence motion against Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari over growing insecurity in the country.
Led by Senate Minority Leader Philip Aduda, the senators have organized a joint exit from the Chamber to address the press while singing “Buhari must go”, according to the newspaper ‘The Guardian’.
Later, Aduda has transferred the journalists who have agreed, in a closed session, to give the president a six-month ultimatum to address the insecurity situation in the country or, otherwise, “a way out” would be found for him .
“In the closed session we agreed that we must give the president an ultimatum that if he did not comply with our resolutions on how to address insecurity within six weeks, we would initiate an impeachment process against him,” he added, noting that they expected a ” point of order” to discuss this issue in the Chamber, according to the newspaper ‘The Premium Times’.
However, as the Bloomberg news agency has pointed out, the senators do not have the two-thirds majority necessary to carry out an ‘impeachment’ against Buhari, who is facing a government crisis due to the action of terrorist networks and criminals in the country, many of whom live by kidnapping students.
The growing insecurity in different parts of the country has forced the closure of schools with “immediate effect” after a video circulated on social networks in which suspected members of the jihadist group Boko Haram threatened to kidnap the president of the country and the governor of the state of Kaduna, Nasir Ahmad al Rufai.
On Tuesday, Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello confirmed an attack on the presidential guard in Nigeria’s capital Abuja on Friday night in which eight people were killed and three soldiers wounded.
On Monday, protests were also registered before the Ministry of Transport in Abuja to denounce the situation of the kidnapped people – who appeared in the aforementioned viral video being beaten – after the attack on a train that covered the route between the capital of Nigeria and the city of Kaduna (north).
The attack took place between the towns of Katari and Rijana, where a device placed on the track to force the convoy to stop exploded, after which a group of unidentified armed persons opened fire on the wagons and tried to enter them.
The train that connects Abuja and Kaduna is considered a safer means of transport than the roads that lead to this state, shaken for years by attacks by jihadist groups and criminal gangs that have increased their operations in recent months.
The attacks in Nigeria, previously focused on the northeast of the country – where Boko Haram and its offshoot, the Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA) operate – have spread in recent months to other areas of the north and northwest.
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