The National Assembly’ s Upper chamber has on Wednesday raised alarm over what it described as frightening killings in Rivers State.

Senate President, Bukola Saraki, said that all forms of criminality must be tackled frontally in the interest of the country.

The president of the Senate recalled that the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, assured that insecurity in Rivers State, just like in other states will not be treated with kid glove.

He insisted that all hands should be on the deck to deal with the issue of criminality decisively.

The alarm followed a motion by Senator Andrew Uchendu (River East) on the rising spate of killings in Rivers State.

In his lead debate, Uchendu said that he was aware the killing of innocent citizens as a result of murder, kidnapping, violence or abduction has been the bane of Rivers State for more than a decade.

He recalled that the killings assumed a dangerous proportion before, during, and after the 2015 general elections.

The River East lawmaker, expressed worries the nature of killings in the state assumed a more horrendous dimension by the decapitation and or dismembering of body parts, including beheading of victims.

Saying that he learnt that “a new twist has now being added to this sacrilegious conduct by not only killing by beheading but also by having the corpses burnt.”

He informed the Senate that at about 9.00pm on Sunday the 19th May, 2019, unknown gunmen invaded Isiodu Community in Emohua LGA, Rivers State and killed three young men between 23 and 30 and unashamedly burnt the corpses.

The killings, he said, spread across the length and breadth of Rivers State.

The Senator recalled that during the last interaction between the Senate and the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, that he stated emphatically that kidnappings and killings have become a way of life in Rivers State.

Uchendu noted that he is aware that the primary responsibility of any responsive government is the provision of security of life and property of its citizens.

He further informed the Senate that “in Rivers State, life has become more brutish and worthless, since anybody can be killed, kidnapped or abducted at any time of the day.”

He was alarmed that no meaningful strategy had been put in place to check the unbridled development in the polity.

The Senate resolved to urge the Federal and the Rivers State Governments to develop workable strategies that would stop the rising cases of killings in the state.