Missing journalist: N/Assembly urges security agencies to step up efforts

The two chambers of the National Assembly on Tuesday tasked the security agencies to step up efforts towards finding the missing reporter of the Vanguard, Tordue Salem

The Senate urged the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba to direct a special investigation into the circumstances surrounding Salem’s whereabouts. 

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This followed a motion by Senator Orker-Jev Emmanuel Yisa (Benue North-West), who drew the attention of his colleagues to the disappearance of the reporter covering the House of Representatives. 

According to the lawmaker, on October 13, 2021, between 8-9 pm, the said Tordue Salem went missing and all phone contacts with him ceased.

He lamented that efforts by his family, friends and colleagues to uncover his whereabouts or what might have happened proved abortive.

Similarly, the House of Representatives adopted a motion by Minority Leader Ndudi Elumelu who described the reporter’s disappearance as; “an extension of the deteriorating state of insecurity in the nation’s capital and again questions the efficiency of the country’s security operatives.”

The House mandated its committees on National Security and Intelligence, Police, Defence and interior to interface with the security agencies to find the reporter and report back to the house within two weeks.