Oyo Assembly backs Makinde’s call for UN probe into mass abduction amid Senate’s rejection

The Oyo State House of Assembly has thrown its weight behind Governor Seyi Makinde’s call for an independent international investigation into the abduction of pupils and teachers from schools in Oriire Local Government Area, insisting that such a probe would strengthen Nigeria’s security architecture rather than undermine it.

PREMIUM TIMES reported that Governor Makinde, in a statewide broadcast on Monday after receiving the rescued pupils and teachers at the Government House, Ibadan, called on the United Nations and international human rights organisations to conduct an independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the abduction.

In a statement issued on Tuesday by the Office of the Speaker, Adebo Ogundoyin, and reported by The Cable, the Assembly congratulated the state government and residents on the successful rescue of the abducted victims, but maintained that the circumstances surrounding the mass abduction warranted an independent investigation.