House Minority Caucus Demands Probe of Attack on Kaduna Airport

Udora Orizu in Abuja

The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has  expressed shock over the brazen invasion of the Kaduna International Airport by terrorists on Saturday.

The Caucus in a statement by its leaderHon. Ndudi Elumelu called for an urgent comprehensive investigation into the remote and immediate circumstances leading to the apparent compromising of security at the airport to pave way for the eventual invasion by the terrorists.

The Lawmakers said the horrific development was another frightening commentary on the apparent collapse of our national security and intelligence gathering coordination under the incompetent All Progressives Congress (APC) administration.

The caucus said, “the Minority Caucus was deeply concerned and alarmed by the manifest lack of capacity by the APC administration to secure our nation to the extent that a strategic international airport in our country could be invaded and taken over by terrorists. Airports, especially international airports across the world are usually highly secured areas. Therefore the circumstances that allowed for the invasion of the Kaduna International Airport speak volume about the failure of the APC administration.  

“The attack on the airport at the time when our roads, railways and communities are being overrun by bandits, kidnappers and invaders has heightened fear across the country as well as sent a very worrisome signal to the International Community regarding the safety of our airports and the worsening insecurity in Nigeria. Our caucus urges the Federal Government to immediately beef up security in all our airports and other public convergence facilities in our country so as to forestall a re-occurrence of such terrifying attack.”