***Calls For extra Vigilance By Citizens, Security Forces
The member representing Obokun/ Oriade Federal Constituency of Osun State, Hon. Busayo Oluwole Oke on Monday grieved over the death of victims of Sunday blood bath in a Catholic Church in the ancient town of Owo in Ondo State.
Oke described the act as barbaric asking the security forces to wake up and fish out the perpetrators of the dastardly act
In a statement issued in Abuja, the Federal lawmaker called for extra vigilance by the Nation’s Security Forces as the preparation for the 2023 general elections hots up, saying that gruesome killing of innocent worshippers in Owo, Ondo state last Sunday was not what the Nation needed at this critical period in the country.
Hon Oke who is also the Chairman of the House of Representatives on Public Accounts condemned the grisly killing as abominable and senseless, just as he described the perpetrators and those behind them as beasts who should be arrested immediately by the security forces..
According to him,”My heartfelt condolences are with the people of Owo over the Sunday massacre. My heart is heavy and I am still grieving over the murder of innocent Nigerians. The beasts who carried out the dastardly act will perish unsung and unwept. Their children children will suffer and die violently,”
“The daylight massacre in the ancient of Owo, according to him was a wake up call to Nigerians that no part of the country is safe, adding that if places of worship, regarded as sacred havens of peace were being invaded with impunity, God helps all of us.
He consoled with Owo monarch, the Ondo state Governor Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu, family members of those killed, the Church and the entire Owo people over the loss of their dear ones.
He called for the urgent overhaul of the nation’s security apparatus with a view to providing better and reliable security for the citizenry.
The lawmaker also sensitises Nigerians to be conscious of their environment because criminals, according to him are not ghosts but human beings in animal skins living among the people
According to him, with what happened on Sunday in Owo it behoves on everyone to literally become a security agent by alerting the relevant authorities about the criminal activities of wicked people around them before their sinister plans are executed”.
He prayed for the repose of the souls of the slain ones, supplicating that God grants their relatives the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.