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By Emman Ovuakporie
The House of Representatives on Tuesday mandated all committees on security liase with service chiefs in Nigeria to urgently investigate the whereabouts of a missing journalist who reports for Vanguard newspaper, Tordue Salem.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports to this end all committees on National security and intelligence, police,defense and interior to interface with service chiefs and other security agencies so as to find the missing Tordue and report back within 2 weeks.
This was based ona motion entitled ” A Case of Missing Journalist, Need to Investigate Circumstances Surrounding the Disappearance” promoted by the House minority leader Ndudi Elumelu(PDP, Delta) during matters of urgent public importance at plenary.
Raising the motion, Hon. Elumelu noted that Mr Tordue Henry Salem is a member of the House of Representatives press corps and he reports for the vanguard newspaper.
According to him, Mr Salem reported for work at the National Assembly premises on Wednesday the 13th of October and was last seen in Garki district of FCT before his alleged disappearance same day.
He added that his disappearance was immediately reported to the relevant security agencies as all efforts by both friends and family to reach him have been abortive.
The lawmaker expressed worries that “Inspite of official effort by the leadership of the house to galvanise the security agencies at promptly resolving his disappearance. There’s been no headway.
“This sudden disappearance is an extension of the deteriorating state of insecurity in the nation’s capital and again questions the efficiency of the country’s security operatives”.
He further expressed concern that if necessary measures are not put in place to curtail the indiscriminate disappearance of innocent Nigerians living in abuja , the federal capital may soon become a breeding ground for kidnappers and bandits, hence the need for an urgent investigation.
To this end, the motion was unanimously adopted by the House after a voice vote was put up by the presiding officer, Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila.