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The Benue State House of Assembly has given Governor Hyacinth Alia a seventy-two-hour ultimatum to appoint a special adviser on security.
The House said this is a direct fallout of the inability to reach the security agencies for a timely response to the two-hour Otukpo bank robbery.
The ultimatum by the state legislature followed a motion moved by the member representing the Otukpo-Akpa State constituency Angbo Kennedy who among other prayers wants all hotels and leisure spots to open mandatory ledger on all guests.
The Speaker Aondona Dajoh while ruling on the prayers, gave the governor a three-day ultimatum to appoint a security adviser.
One of the lawmakers Godwin Edoh who escaped the Otukpo bank robbery where dynamites were used as explosives lamented his inability to reach out to anyone from the state for lack of a substantive security adviser.
He also said he could not reach anyone at the local government level where chairmen in the states have remained suspended since June 2023.
According to Angbo, the member representing Otukpo-Akpa, the bank robbery where Divisional Police Officer John Adikwu, three other personnel, and six other civilians were killed has opened up gaps in the security architecture of the state.
“Note that armed robbers numbering about 30 on motorbikes entered Otukpo town on Friday 20th October,” he said.
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