President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has commiserated with victims of the fire incident that occurred on Thursday at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Ngala, Borno State.
Mr Lawan, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Ola Awoniyi, in Abuja on Friday, mourned the 14 people who lost their lives and sympathised with those injured in the inferno.
He called on relevant authorities to investigate the incident with a view to averting a re-occurrence. He said he was saddened by the NHRC report that 18 people were killed by high-handed security officers tasked to enforce the stay at home directives.Mr Lawan said that extra-judicial killings, in whatever guise, should be discouraged in the society.
“Life is sacred; it is a tragedy that those asked to enforce compliance with emergency measures adopted for public safety are now being accused of responsibility for needless and totally avoidable deaths of citizens,’’ Mr Lawan said.
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